• Anakwa Dwamena

More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

• Anakwa Dwamena

The stuff we couldn't cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.

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Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.

• Anakwa Dwamena

And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.

• Anakwa Dwamena

The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.

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Including another worrying thread of the American "war on terror" on the continent: the training of vigilantes. 

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Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.

• Anakwa Dwamena

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.

• Africa is a Country

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

Put on "Gang Signs & Prayer," the debut studio album of Stormzy (Government Name: Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo, Jr.), as this is  going to be a long Weekend Special.

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.

• Africa is a Country

• Sean Jacobs

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.

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Our weekly update post of things we did not blog about includes a derby goal, a film about the Williams sisters and the passing of a major 20th century South African intellectual.

• Sean Jacobs

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.

• Africa is a Country

An eclectic playlist of music that features musicians as diverse as Horace Silver, Obour, Black Dillinger and Mzungu Kichaa.