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Arts, Culture and Sport7 years ago
Is Osita Iheme’s meme used by Fenty Beauty and 50 Cent a win for Nollywood?
Osita Iheme is popular actor across Africa but after Fenty Beauty tweeted a meme of him, he has gone global. The Nigerian actor known by many...
Arts, Culture and Sport7 years ago
Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah wins 2019 Caine Prize
Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah is the winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. The £10,000 prize is the most prestigious literary award for...
Arts, Culture and Sport7 years ago
Kenya is creating a database of plundered cultural artefacts and their current locations
While other African countries have been petitioning for decades and are actively moving towards the repatriation of cultural artefacts that were plundered during the colonial era,...
Arts, Culture and Sport7 years ago
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize
East African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in...
Arts, Culture and Sport7 years ago
Nigerian photographer Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko raises awareness of albinism with her latest exhibition, titled “White Ebony”
Nigerian photographer Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko had a photographic exhibition, White Ebony, at the Temple Muse and hosted by SMO Contemporary Art. The exhibition highlighted the daily struggles...

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Is Osita Iheme’s meme used by Fenty Beauty and 50 Cent a win for Nollywood?

Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah wins 2019 Caine Prize

Kenya is creating a database of plundered cultural artefacts and their current locations

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize

Nigerian photographer Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko raises awareness of albinism with her latest exhibition, titled “White Ebony”

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance

Reform or retreat? The Catholic church in Africa after Pope Francis

All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

The Mask is Off. Why Kenyan #GenZs are Rising Against a Regime Stuck in its Colonial Past

Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2

The failure of centralized power across the planet is upon us

Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule

Raila Amolo Odinga

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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran

Reelecting William Samoei Ruto

Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power

The silence that dictatorship taught us

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of South Africa’s economic crisis

Power, pleasure and patriarchy: why The Polygamist on Netflix is captivating viewers

The contemporary African writer and the burden of history

South Africa forgetting Biko: Retaining an inferiority complex

IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural adjustment, “Capitalogenic” disease, and the fight to hold the World Bank accountable

Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound

Ceasefire but not a grand bargain between the United States and Iran

Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same

The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa

The 1953 original sin: How a coup in Iran engineered 70 years of global resource wars

Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers

Kenya’s protests against the Ebola Quarantine Facility are as much about the economy as they are about sovereignty

Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim crafted a magnificent new culture for South Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim: South Africa’s master pianist who was still touring the world at 90

The FIFA 2026 World Cup and its complicity in a changing global World Order

The architecture of extraction: From colonial famine to the mortgaged Kenyan pay slip

The Thursday Briefing: From “Zhing Zhong” to Technomultipolarity: Geosociotechnopolitics and the future of China–Africa ICT relations

South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous

Anti‑foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it

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