Rita Nketiah outlines the ways respectability politics constrains African women and girls from expressing the totality of their humanity
Blogging has become a phenomenon across the world, providing an informal platform that creates access to differing human experiences in numerous contexts. In our interests, we...
‘What practices of self-care and love have been replicated and shared by black girls and women in the styling and braiding of their hair? What collective...
The recent death of Fatmata Turay, a 19 year-old girl from Makeni, Sierra Leone, who died after a botched female genital mutilation (FGM) operation has continued...
Since the rise of Boko Haram, the media have painted a picture of Borno State in Nigeria as a place of death and destruction. Photojournalist Fati...
