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Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria’s police force was never really an investigating force.
Just what level of racist insanity does an “expert” have to exhibit before the New York Times starts to think they’re not an expert?
Bringing attention to African filmmakers who challenge prevalent cinematic depictions of the continent.
This is currently Boko Haram’s structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
Basil Breakey’s photographs serves as an important recording of South Africa jazz music in the 1960s and 1970s.
The strong local identity of Colombia’s most African big city is slowly being erased. But not all its artists, especially musicians, are giving up without a fight.
A public service as a response to Nigeria’s removal of history from its school curriculum
The film “Forgotten Kingdom” has become one of the most powerful representations of Lesotho. Does it get it right?
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons.
Angolans protest as the state threatens to tear down an historic building.
Are development agencies derailing the film industry in Tanzania?
Chris Hani should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Chris Hani, a prominent ANC and Communist Party leader, was murdered on April 10, 1993, by white racists. The writer remembers hearing the news.
For years Bisi Silva, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim and others have been active players in the art world. Why are they being written out of the story?
“Jazzing” on the Cape Flats, almost similar to salsa as developed in New York City. It’s the dominant sound of parties in Cape Town.