Skin politics in northern Ghana
What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.
What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.
The power of having a god who resembles us.
A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.
"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."
The Elsenburg Agricultural College lies 50 km east of Cape Town, tucked among the quiet valleys
Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.
The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?
Colombians and outsiders continue to associate Afro-Colombians largely with dance or music. This is a problem.
Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoqsw3n8D6g&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My man Gary Younge, New York-based feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, has a