Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
Oral histories serve as a challenge to the evidence in the colonial archive.
It is time to end the rampant practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is one of the world’s worst offenders for...
The country is still a very different political space. It’s a noisy democracy with a free media, lots of dissenting voices, and insulting the government doesn’t...
Kenya’s presidential running mates went head-to-head on July 19, 2022. Azimio’s Martha Karua was an easy favourite to dominate the Deputy Presidential debate but Kenya Kwanza’s...
What we say and where we say it matters for preventing discrimination, and social media is now a priority.
Russia is trying to normalise an international order where might makes right. And democracy and respect for human rights are optional.
Mark Ngwazi inherited a Sungura songbook which depended a little too much on folk wisdom and flat moralising. Humour, wordplay and counterintuitive observation could be Ngwazi’s...
Our research found that Kenyan students dislike ethnic-based politics in principle, but feel the pressures of tribalism.
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.
OitentaNoventa is facilitating monthly conversations between writers born in the 1980s and 1990s with writers and industry actors they look up to from older generations. Founders...
African Giant Burna Boy is topping international charts with his latest album. The personal letter to his fans inspired by his life, is a fusion of...
