In an analysis of gender based violence, Paula Akugizibwe shows how through actions or inactions, society is either reinforcing, or challenging social norms.
Paula Akugizibwe
Lifestyle Unlearning the culture of sexual harassment
African writers and readers gather across generations to discuss the deeper questions that shape our understanding of, and responses to, sexual harassment.
Politics and Society Who killed Mozambique’s Samora Machel?
It’s as if the Samora Machel Monument wasn’t meant to be found. After the turn-off from a well-marked highway between South Africa and Mozambique, the road to the site of the mysterious plane crash of Mozambique’s first president twists and turns for miles.
Politics and Society Border blues: Why must Africans jump through hoops for a visa?
As life’s delights go, visa-related red tape is right up there with root canals and Rick Ross. But it’s an integral part of life for holders of African passports. We are all-too-familiar with the tediousness of ticking one’s way through a relentless list of visa requirements ranging from your great-grandmother’s fingerprints to a sample of unicorn blood
Politics and Society ‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara
A week before he died, Sankara said, “revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, but you cannot kill ideas”. And so, for us today, the final challenge rests not in finding more Sankaras, but in becoming them – in bringing these ideas to life