
Bashir’s last trip outside of Sudan
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan's President Omar al Bashir?

Should the South African government have arrested Sudan's President Omar al Bashir?

Weekend Music Break, your weekly round up of hot tunes and music news from around the African Continent and its diaspora, is here! This weekend we have Belgium based Congolese artists Badi and Fredy Massamba’s team up “Belgicain”; Show Dem Camp puts out an Afro-House song featuring Iye on the hook; still in the house […]

A satire on particularly British, and wider European, attitudes towards refugees fleeing war and climate disaster.

The Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for May 2015.

In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.

In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.

The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.

The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.

In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a certain age and then we all get hot flashes. We like sex even though we are told we should not like sex. We have sex. We have babies. White women, brown women, yellow women, black. We are all the same. But, that’s […]
Andrew Miller’s a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer to patiently hone his writing craft as well as flex his philosophical biceps with Jozi’s artists, writers and passers by at his dinner table in Melville, Johannesburg. A tireless six years of editorial bench pressing has saw him produce […]

Having lived all my life in Eritrea, I left the country in January 2012. Some European countries have recently claimed the situation in Eritrea has improved in order to justify accepting less Eritrean refugees. I wanted to share my firsthand experience of what daily life is like in Eritrea – a country with the highest […]

Why were Kenyans tweeting #52YearsofSufferinginNEP on this year's Independence Day?