In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, was charged with the murder of 35-year-old Umaru Sani. Wasila had been forced into marriage, and a week later, Umaru Sani died of rat poison ingestion. Despite calls from national and international women’s groups, the girl was tried in adult rather […]
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
A meditation on Haiti and Charleston. Being Black, these days, means living in constant state of siege.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
The Dominican state and the country's elites make up a history of conflict with Haiti to justify the periodic deportation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan's President Omar al Bashir?
A satire on particularly British, and wider European, attitudes towards refugees fleeing war and climate disaster.
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.
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 […]
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?
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques -- an opponent of state corruption in Angola -- is being heard in a former slave house.
Africa is a Radio has a Football (is a Country) focus this week. Things have been moving so fast in FIFA’s controversial world that this show is a bit behind on the latest news. But we think you will enjoy the discussion anyway. Also included is a brief discussion around today’s UEFA Champion’s League Final. And, a […]
Of course football administrators in predominantly white countries that aren't Africa have no interest at all in "looking after" their families.
Ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
Side-eyeing the UN for abusing its privilege and wasting financial resources on business class flights, and then secretly coveting becoming part of the UN.