Performance artist Serge Attukwei Clottey is best known for his work with the yellow plastic jerrycans that are typically used to collect and carry water. He calls this technique “Afrogallonism”. His performance installations are intended to highlight Ghana’s soaring levels of pollution and to draw attention to social injustice.
Athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at the sixth annual Harvard University’s Hutchins Center Honors presented for contributions to African and African-American history and culture. Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the eight Du Bois Medalists.
“The Facebook post is important because it is instant.” Stella Nyanzi and the making of a social media icon
Zimbabwe’s new government ordered Thursday that land confiscated from a white farmer to give to an ally of former president Robert Mugabe must be returned.
Protest is evolving and boycotts are the form of nonviolent resistance that does not end in bloodshed and loss of life. It is an ideal that every movement should aspire towards for the love of it’s supporters.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will award an honorary doctorate (LLD honoris causa) to activist Abdurrazak ‘Zackie’ Achmat at a graduation ceremony scheduled for Friday, 14 July 2017. The award will be conferred in recognition of his contribution to activism for social-justice in South Africa.
When Nigeria’s State Security Service arrested Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the modern secessionist group Indigenous People of Biafra, many thought that agitation for the defunct Republic of Biafra would be silenced. Instead, the struggle has been re-awakened.
At a meeting for people of color to discuss racism in Berlin recently, the theme of this particular one being “Anger”, members talked about their …
Today is the World Day of Social Justice. Social justice is upheld through the promotion of social and gender equality or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We can advance social justice by removing barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.
In a world where nothing is for free, Tiffany Kagure Mugo asks, why are hard-working activists, especially women, still asked to give of their time and talent for next to nothing? It is time that society recognised the value of their labour.
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