Musaemura Zimunya and Marshall Munhumumwe’s culturally immersive and nationally minded writing and music have a foundational place in the Zimbabwean...
One of the problem with Africans is that when they become educated they begin to despise their roots. I don’t talk poetry, I live it. People...
If the State can no longer guarantee your safety and security, what do you do? Well, if you’re middle class and live in Kenya, you get...
The African Union gets a lot of flak. It's often depicted as ineffectual, criticised for failing to represent the needs of African’s 1.1 billion citizens 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...
