• Anakwa Dwamena

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

• Anakwa Dwamena

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

Including your monthly reminder about the pitfalls of the #AfricaRising narrative.

• Anakwa Dwamena

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

• Anakwa Dwamena

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

• Anakwa Dwamena

And the Premier of South Africa's Western Cape province, has called for the country's military to intervene in gang violence like in Rio in Brazil. Is it a good idea?

• Africa is a Country

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

So as usual, a bunch of links--new as well as ones--that have piled up in my bookmarks folder.