Nipsey’s immigrant hustle
Eritrean-American rapper Nipsey Hussle mix of immigrant and street hustle.
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David Goldblatt at the Centre Georges Pompidou
The South African photographer has a complicated place within his country's photographic culture.
African story time
George Clooney and John Prendergast's simple story about African conflict breeds ineffective solutions.
The Angolan regime’s least favorite journalist
Despite the political reforms by Angola’s government, the harassment of anti-corruption journalist Rafael Marques continues.
Wakanda’s feminist scorecard
How the celebrated film Black Panther stacks up in its depiction of decolonized African feminism.
The peculiar nostalgia for the former Bantustans in South Africa
Some South Africans are looking back on the apartheid era's Bantustan homelands with reverence. Here is why.
And what for future generations in Sierra Leone?
In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.
#MeToo, Africa too?
Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?
We have new clothes
For months, we have been threatening to launch a new website. Well, now it's here!
The Afghanistan-ization of Africa
Most people are unaware that U.S. troops are active in almost every African country.
Love and life on the flipside of Dar es Salaam
It is nice to see two female leads in an African film that are not doing hair, casting some sort of ju-ju curse or throwing vases at cheating husbands.
Addressing the genocide in Namibia
It took almost 110 years for Germany to accept the fact of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1908.