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Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.

Beware the bling of banner headlines announcing free speech victories.

Motsepe was named South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire by Forbes Magazine.

In our series of interviews with young artists and creatives continue: This week’s guest: photographer and blogger, Nana Kofi Acquah.

Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.

The Lagos elite blows money at puffery, while most of Nigeria suffers. It’s the same as it ever was.



It is not good enough to teach our sons not to rape. We need to teach our sons that a woman is not some “thing” placed on this planet just to satisfy whatever desire you have.

Here’s what some South African artists make of the country’s politics.

Players in the board game, “Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa,” are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa’s “vast wilderness.”

Lesotho’s media and the “problem” of Chinese immigrant shop owners.

The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.

It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.

Roxsanne Dyssell’s second in a series of interviews with young artists and creatives: Next: creative director and photoblogger,Metasebia Yoseph

The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?

Barely any group has been as de-humanized as much in recent history as Somali pirates, treated almost like vermin to be rooted out.

Watching the African Nations Cup Final at The Shrine in Harlem.

Nigerian coach Stephen Keshi’s decision to resign one day after winning AFCON is a metaphor for the current political climate in Nigeria.

Dama do Bling is sometimes called a Lusophone Queen Latifah and Mozambican Lil Kim. The comparison doesn’t always work.