Falling into an uneasy sleep
It took the writer, later South Africa's ambassador to Sri Lanka, 30 years to talk to her mother about rape. Her mother's rape.
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A masterful experiment in film making
“A Hotel Called Memory” concerns itself with elements of mood and scene and downplays aspects relating to plot or story.
East German-Africans
Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.
Wobblies of the World Unite
A new history of a radical union that profoundly impacted Southern African politics.
Hashtag Somalia
There is considerably less sustained outcry on social media about African life in relation to ongoing forms of structural violence that may be more mundane but just as deadly.
The African churches of South Delhi
Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.
In a film about war, can you leave out the politics?
The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down.
King George
Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country's next president.
Everyone in Eritrea is desperate to flee, including the President’s son
In today’s Eritrea, there is no difference between the jailer and the jailed. The political culture is so violent and desperate that the
With friends like these
Few places in the world have taken a beating like South Sudan. How did it come to this?
Defend Puerto Rico
This weekend's music break is dedicated to the isla del encancto.
Nobel Prizes and Politics in Kenya
The Nobel Prize for Literature buzz around Ngugi’s wa Tiong'o's points to both his seminal contributions to African literature but also his work to kept the memory of Kenya’s divisive past alive.