In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way...
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and...
Green plants have red, hot sex. With all their reproductive ploys, it’s as if they are gently mocking humans and our lack of imagination. Or are...
Gambia has passed a bill that allows some homosexual acts to be punished with life imprisonment, potentially worsening the climate for sexual minorities in a country...
Binyavanga Wainaina, the controversial and witty Kenyan writer, was in Nigeria for another instalment of Farafina’s creative writing workshop. He spoke with TIA’s Chiagozie Nwonwu about...
The stink over director Brett Bailey’s theatre production, "Exhibit B", in which black performers exhibit themselves, and the social media storm it has set off, has...
In the good old days there were no unemployed graduates, and poetry was a sacred office. No one painted a leader in a loinskin with his...
Having a degree is often seen as the most important thing you can do to get a “good job”. But with so many unable to access...
To spectators, Tanzania’s preference for Swahili over English may seem like a sign of liberation from colonial influence. But is that how we feel? In the...
Are African women between a rock and a hard place when it comes to feminism and bodily adornment? One African female writer explores what it means...
When President Museveni announced that Arts courses were “useless”, he was tapping into a belief held by many Ugandans raised to believe an office job is...
