Days of our lives: Kenya 2017 elections edition
Ordinary Kenyans are tired of the drama of party politics, and are hungry, job insecure and live under the threat of police bullets.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
An economic strategy for The Gambia
This is the first opportunity for Gambians since independence in 1965 to have a broad-ranging public conversation on its future.
The benevolent great power
Opportunities like China’s One Belt One Road Initiative cannot simply be ignored, but should be engaged with critically.
Biafra–nostalgia as critique
How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?
Biafra and other ghosts
After nearly fifty years, the real impact of the Biafran war on Nigeria remains to be measured, free from political gamesmanship.
Masculinity and its Discontents
An in-depth look at the life and times of Winnie Madizikela-Mandela largely in her own words.
Weekend Music Break No.109 – Shameless self-promotion edition
Music Break! Welcome to your weekend. This week we have a bit of shameless self promotion,
The legacy of the first genocide of the 20th century
The mass murder of Nama and Herero by German colonists is now the subject of a documentary by the South African director, Vincent Moloi.
Mother in law
In the film, “Maman Colonelle,” a Congolese policewoman takes on ghosts of the past.
The African Who Wanted to Fly
When he was fifteen, the Gabonese Luc Bendza embarked on his life journey to China to
It wasn’t cricket
The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.
Blaxploitation, Italian style
The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy’s film industry.
Linton Kwesi Johnson and Black British Struggle
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
A different kind of girl power
In recent years there has been a global convergence on the “girling of development”; in other
Take me to your leader: Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki
The author, in exile from Eritrea, attempts construct a profile of the country’s longtime leader.
The moral imperative on South African farms
Yolanda Daniels is a domestic worker with three children. She has lived on a farm outside
Weekend Music Break No.108
This time no theme, just another Music Break for your weekend! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLseDnIPw8h8KFi_a-MymUblhuSb1uS0CG Weekend Music Break No.108
Rosa Parks doesn’t live here anymore
The decision to relocate Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks’s home from Detroit to Berlin, Germany, is another case of white savior complex.
Green White Green is a love letter to Nigeria’s youth
The film depicts the mutually transformative friendship of three “ethnically different” Nigerian young men in break with their elders’ attitudes.
The Coffin Revolution in Cameroon
Neither western or African media nor academic literature can afford to continue to erase or marginalize Anglophone Cameroon from the region’s present and history.