As the cliche goes, there are only 3 things that an African child can be
We could call this: The Afro-Trifecta, if you will. They are a lawyer, some sort of
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The African New Wave
Weekend Music Break Number 57 includes a tribute to Fela Kuti, music from Lesotho, and the fast rapping of Sarkodie.
The #BullshitFiles: KLM offers flights to ‘the Dark Continent’
We're not making this up. It turns out Royal Dutch flagship carrier's KLM decision to hire
Signs the journalism on Africa you’ve just encountered is trash
If more than one of these apply to your media source, you’re probably not getting your information from the most reliable place.
Refugee Voyeurism, German Style
What do a model, the former bassist of a rightist rock band, a fantasy writer who
Remembering Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima had the unique ability to strike first at your heart, not unlike the experience of hearing Billie Holiday for the first time.
Where is Grahamstown?
On 10 October 2013, a certain segment of white South Africans left their children with the
Christina Aguilera feeds “war-torn” Rwanda
Africa: helping white people who are a bit down-in-the-dumps, feel better about themselves since 1884.
Weekend Music Break: The Brother Moves On
I followed The Brother Moves On around South Africa once. True story, I even wrote about
The Supposed Vacuity of the “Global Novel”
The fact that the global novel has emerged from the world of the global literary economy does not render it “lite.”
Mozambican Occupations
The work of photographer Felipe Branquinho, which portrays workers and working class people in their urban surroundings in Mozambique.
The Nobel Peace Prize: Totally irrelevant?
It is worth going through some of the dodgiest choices made by the Nobel committee in the time they’ve awarded the Peace Prize first in 1901.
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips and the “True Story” of Somali Piracy
The complexity surrounding the social and economic drivers of piracy off the Horn of Africa was lost in the media-friendly version of the story.
African Writers and the Nobel Prize for Literature
Only five African or African-born writers have been awarded the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Coetzee and Lessing.
The scope of the problem
Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s film “Cairo 678” documents the lives of 3 women, all victims of sexual harassment and assault and who organize collectively against it.
The Westgate Mall photographs
The photographs of the terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall depict an ordinary day for people at the mall gone terribly wrong.
How we tell stories about cities
We must not forget the everyday lived realities and struggles in vanished neighborhoods.
A Hot Mess
Black women have no say in what is pretty considering it is the job of non-white women to dispel the standards of beauty, and white women to reinvent it.
Palestine Scores
European football officials may have missed it, but Palestine already scored several goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
Ghana’s Independence Era Through the Lens of S.K. Pobee
The photos below (click to enlarge), offering a glimpse into the joy and optimism of the