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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

Talking China in Africa at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York

Goodbye B.B. King. Here he is playing live in Kinshasa, then Zaire, 1974

Vice News and the war against Boko Haram
It’s not really about Nigeria, and it’s not for Nigerians. Rather it’s a story, popular in America, about brave soldiers fighting terrorists.

The old is dying and the young ones have just been born
These young ones who have just been born do not respect authority simply because the rules say they should.

We are angels, victims of everybody
Looking inside ourselves and working on the dark hearts of our colonial crap.

Annual NGO ranking shows that the “white savior” status quo remains intact

Let’s talk about Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s e-book on “Corrective Rape” in South Africa

Black Film, White Masks
Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.

To be young, privileged and black in a world of white hegemony
To bear witness to the cacophony of Rhodes Must Fall, as though trying to recall the days of a revolution I was born too late to witness.

Fresh Eyes: Amaal Said’s portraits of belonging

Weekend Music Break No.73

A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what’s their sophistications, and what’s going to happen to these aspirations?

Pura Música
This is our Teca–basically introducting you to some of the coolest, hippest, most recent music from cities around Latin America.

What are ’emerging voices’ and ’emerging countries’?
Why the author asked for his work to be withdrawn from a prestigious literary competition.

Profile of South African afro-psychedelic future pop sextet Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness

The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.

The art of unrest
Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.

The Decade of People of African Descent
Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.

Burundi’s growing mess
How did Burundi go from being the hallmark of power-sharing success to an increasingly polarized country?