
This is not only Ghana’s loss
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.

Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren’t that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.

The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.


It’s understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.

South Africa’s mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.

Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, ‘The Warm Up,’ ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.

There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there’s an election he exploits ethnic divisions.

The negative effects of tourism, globalization, and commercialization in Zanzibar.

Meron Estefanos Meron speaks to us about her ongoing work with Eritrean refugees and migrants, many who live in Israel.

The story of how the most famous portrait of a young Chinua Achebe was taken at his house in Enugu, Nigeria in 1959 by American photographer, Eliot Elisofon.

The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.

Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital,” know them for what they are.

Harry Belafonte and Martin Scorsese are planning a TV series on King Leopold II of Belgium’s brutal rule in the Congo.

A conversation with the curators of the Angolan Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Film adaption of an epic novel is a fine and difficult art; one that the creators of “Half of a Yellow Sun” did not pull off.

How can the Nigerian government be willing to lend treasured objects to an institution tha still keeps the shameful booty from colonialism’s crimes?