Nigerian writer Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeke is up for two Hugo Awards at the 80th World Science Fiction Convention. He is...
How have we bred the sort of monsters that can strip a woman in the streets when we come from a fairytale history of women wearing...
The continuous existence of black people is a political act, and after Ferguson I can no longer separate my feminism from my political fight against the...
If this writing thing doesn’t work out I might be joining Il Divo (those guys look like they get laid a lot) and be taking groupies...
Michael Brown, a young black man, is dead. The man who killed him, a white policeman, will not be punished. Because in America, white is always...
I spent eight years convincing myself that it was all a bad dream, and I am not alone in that response.
New evidence of a Rwandan killed in Germany last month has emerged and it points to xenophobia
An exhibition in Lagos highlights the importance of aso-oke, the premier fabric in Yoruba land. Artist Tunde Owolabi spoke to Oris Aigbokhaevbolo about the importance of...
Investigating crimes against humanity is a notoriously complex, slow and expensive business. Zimbabwe meets both these criteria. Basic human rights have been something of a luxury...
There is increasing evidence that rates of child sexual abuse and rape are disproportionately high in sub-Saharan Africa. A searingly powerful photographic exhibition hopes to break...
Since the 1990s, when multi-party politics was re-introduced in Kenya, the country has seen numerous political transitions. In 2010, a new constitution was promulgated, paving the...
