When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon's reactionary's views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.
Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Pharrell Williams's pop hit, "Happy," is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
Ten Harlem-based artists and ten Columbia University students work together for the month-long exhibition, "Bridging Boundaries: Redefining Diaspora."
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century. As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been “removed”. This is five times the number when Bringing Them Home was written. More than a third of all removed children are Aboriginal – from 3% of the population. At the present rate, this mass removal of Aboriginal children will result in a stolen generation of more than 3,300 children in the Northern Territory alone.
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.
It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.
Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz's music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.