Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
With Russia’s foreign minister and France’s president in Africa this week, propaganda around the Ukraine war is intensifying.
In a previous post about African versus European craziness, "Crazy oddity #4: ‘dealing’ with your kids" brought up fond memories of the corporal punishment inflicted on...
A Nigerian friend, with whom I went to university in the UK, had tribal marks on his cheeks. I never felt comfortable enough to ask him...
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...
Why do some Nigerians put white people on a pedestal, while others criticise the idea that having paler skin makes you more intelligent, beautiful and successful?
There seems to be a general consensus amongst Africans that while it is occasionally acceptable to comparatively group countries within the continent together, South Africa stands...
Why do good intentions lead to some of the worst songs ever committed to tape? And good intentions aimed at Africa, in particular, seem to inspire...
