What Serena Williams communicates on the tennis court
One key to black style is the fact that, relative to white Americans, black people don’t have much room “for make believe.”
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The lions and the hunters
Lions and black people are not the same or even straightforwardly comparable. But it is true that something wants them both dead.
The politics of homophobia in Kenya
Why US President Barack Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya.
#Free15Angolans: An update
You’d never know it from reading the US media, but 15 political prisoners in Angola are still in jail.
Aliens in Lagos
The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'
New South African feature ‘Endless River’ makes film history
South African film director and auteur Oliver Hermanus has made film history this week and his cell phone is blowing up. “Yesterday was a hard day for my phone,” he writes via email, “She’s taken a sick day today.” The reason is that his latest feature, Endless River, has become the first South African film […]
Between prison and deportation
Sudanese asylum-seeker to Israel's president: “Why not let us stay and contribute to Israeli society?”
The African roots of the Americas
There is a lot of ignorance about Afro-Latinos, despite the deep history dating back to the introduction of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Body Politricks and the Worlds in Between
A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me"
Kenyan gays want their rights
The denial of a gay Kenyan existence is an affront to the Kenyan LGBTQ community, their talents, hopes and aspirations
When I was in school, being African was a diss
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance's monthly installment of "Top World Carnival Tunes" for July 2015.
Humans of Lagos
Offering a glimpse at daily life in the West African mega city.