Homophobia and hatred in Cameroon
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
Breaking down self-imposed borders
Ten Harlem-based artists and ten Columbia University students work together for the month-long exhibition, “Bridging Boundaries: Redefining Diaspora.”
The trouble with #WhiteHistoryMonth is that it is not history yet
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been "removed". This is five times the number when Bringing Them Home was written. More than a third of all removed children are Aboriginal – from 3% of the population. At the present rate, this mass removal of Aboriginal children will result in a stolen generation of more than 3,300 children in the Northern Territory alone.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa’s violent history.
When Chinua Achebe went to Scandinavia in 1988
It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.
Notes from the Native Yards
Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz’s music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.
An Afropean Journey
Johny Pitts could not find a sense of self in his corner of black Britain, so he started to wonder if there was a collective black consciousness on the European continent.
What if you witness a revolution, but things get worse?
Documenting the change from hope to depression and then finding new means to cope with the fading fragrance of revolution in Egypt.
Who decides what is African?
The photographer Zanele Muholi equally mourns and celebrates South African queer lives.
How To Kill The Nigerian Publishing Industry
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance imposes a 62.5% tariff on imported printed books, where previously there has been none.
Was Sherlock Holmes a racist?
The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The everyday lives of African immigrants in South Africa
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.
To revolutionize a culture
The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father’s records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.
Leather from Human Skin
In the 1880s, in Philadelphia, “birthplace of America,” some white locals used the skin of black people to make clothes, including shoes.
The Undemocratic Alliance
South Africa’s second largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, exhibits the same paranoia as does the ruling party when it comes to dissent.
Lesotho’s Politics Go Pop
Lesotho's Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government Tom Thabane has found love: ‘It is one of the best decisions that I ever made in my entire life,’ the statesman said in a recent newspaper interview (in Sotho). The circumstances in which the news was revealed, was less rosy: a bomb explosion and unidentified gunmen shooting at his lover's house.
How to own history
Five films pointing to new directions for African cinema — by some of the most exciting young filmmakers from the continent.
The Jews of Egypt
Highlighting one of the dark sides of Egyptian nationalism, and exposing the dangers of blanket xenophobia.
Before And After The Disco
The self-titled debut album of Ibibio Sound Machine, features songs mostly in the southern Nigerian language of lead vocalist, Eno Williams.