The artificial borders separating African people are part of the most enduring legacies of colonialism in Africa. The vision of...
The pioneering role she played, and the sacrifices she made, extended well beyond the famous 1956 Women’s March.
South Africa has 11 official languages, but some black people are being brought up to speak only English. Others equate speaking English with intelligence, forgetting that...
In an attempt to silence journalists, activists, NGOs and other critics, the Kenyan government is denouncing them as agent provocateurs and accusing them of being funded...
A journalist and nine others were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for protesting against a constitutional referendum on Monday, according to judicial sources in Egypt....
Here in Ghana, God himself dictates your sex life through his servants: the pastors. Thus sayeth the Lord, “Sex between a man and his wife is...
If ever someone introduces himself to you as “Engr. Double Chief Sir,” you need not ask where he is from. In a world championship for titles,...
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...
Obama has invited 47 African leaders to a summit in DC, but no summit between the US and that many countries can come up with useful...
What makes someone African? In a globalised world, is there such a thing as an African identity? If you’re African by origin but were born and...
Anti-Black racism from Arabs is nothing new, but anti-Black racism from East and South-East Asians is not what most Nigerians expect. I work at an Asian...
