The World Cup is selling football as inclusive and diverse. It’s not so for the African players migrating to play overseas. The humanitarian posturing should not distract us from the existence of a ...
The lizard that digs its sand nest on the blindside knows that the deepest love is on the back of the mind. To build a house backwards is to reach for the foundation. A house is built with words but ...
Power and pleasure collide with Black hopes and dreams in the show that has sparked global conversation. It tracks the fatal ruptures in what seems like a successful upper class family, the Gomoras.
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping away from writing, but by building a publishing house designed to ...
A new independent literary imprint, Friesian Publishing, has formally launched in London, entering the contemporary publishing landscape with a clear editorial vision: to champion fiction and memoir ...
Under the Hanging Tree is a new film written, directed and produced by Perivi Katjavivi, a young, up-and-coming Namibian filmmaker. Despite two decades of gradual growth in the fledgling Namibian film ...
African nations consistently vote for Infantino because they depend on Fifa for financial support. Gerard A. Akindes studies the political economy of African football. His work traces how capital, ...
Africa’s Sound Is Global — But Where’s the Money? How the world fell in love with African music, and why the continent still earns less than 1% of global revenues. Before the global burst of Afrobeats ...
A scholar of politics and religion explains how anti-LGBTQ laws are being used to distract the public from governance failures in many parts of the world. It calls for the death penalty for a category ...
Every year, African families pay almost nine billion dollars in fees to send money to each other. Bitcoin has cracked that business model. The diaspora is noticing. Here is a number to sit with. In ...
I am yet to recover from a tumultuous experience I had recently in coming in touch with When Three Sevens Clash, a book cum magazine conceived and published by veteran journalist, Percy Zvomuya, as ...
The 1960s is a significant era in Abdullah Ibrahim’s story. It’s a time when the South African master’s international career as a jazz pianist was gradually established and he laid the foundations for ...