In a rare series of interviews, the late Ghanaian leader spoke of how the country's slave trade was revisited as a vehicle for economic development.
In 1986 Julius Okello was forced into Uganda’s Bush War as a child soldier. Tenacity and hope delivered him through a personal wilderness to his PhD.
Cosmetics companies have agreed to remove racially offensive language from their skin products - but history, in Kenya and South Africa, shows they've done the same...
Both Black Panther and Beyoncé's Black is King represent a utopian vision of empowerment and connection to Africa.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.