Reading List: Ayomide Bayowa
Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.
Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.
A vernacular attempt at a social anthropology of dogs across three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and Canada.
Somali-Canadian writers lay bare the harsh realities of being Black, migrant and Muslim in multicultural and ostensibly tolerant Toronto.
The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” The saying, commonly associated with the poet of
Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
African refugees are systematically excluded from priority groups for resettlement in Western countries. The case of Canada.
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
Kae Sun, who we’ve featured on this site before, has just released a new single. With
Racism against Somali Canadians is a real problem. It is present not only on the right, but the left as well.
A youth activist that came to prominence in the 1976 student uprising in South Africa has been missing since 1978.
The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.
In our current #hashtag fueled media landscape, it is fairly hard for an up-and-coming artist to
Guest Post by Robert Nathan They’re not your average musicians. Sons of West African griots and
Canadian immigration - while discouraging Roma from applying for refugee status - welcomes the worst of Apartheid South Africa's perpetrators.
Will Ferguson wrote a novel about Nigeria's 419 scams. He also won an award for it. Do we think it's a good read?
The Globe and Mail's opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
'Vershtunkende' is a Yiddish adjective loosely translated as ‘darned,’ ‘exasperating’, ‘maliciously idiotic’. It is not a nice word to use for either a person or thing.
Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.