Nairobi is only a place in which you live because you can’t leave. It also is the kind of place in which you stay until, suddenly, you don't anymore.
Under Fidel Castro’s leadership, Cuba found its mission and played its part in the African continent’s struggle for freedom and independence.
While eugenics concepts did not directly shape policy, they formed a part of the larger racist ideologies that informed many laws of the colonial era, a good number of which survive to date.
Digital programs come with templates and precast straitjackets that result in depictions of traditional and cultural diversity that are inauthentic and historically inaccurate.
No longer the self-proclaimed Goliath of the Afrobeats scene, Davido’s latest release reveals a waning star in a crowded firmament.
For black women in particular, the individual pursuit of a soft, consumption-driven life is a fragile approach to securing social justice.
Exploring the legacy of writer Fred K. Kago, his Wĩrute Gũthoma books and the teaching of African languages in the school curriculum.
Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.
The Anthology of the Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize 2014–2020 is a great achievement for Prof. Ebrahim Hussein in the creativity it has inspired in ordinary Tanzanians who have shared the poetry in them through this prize.
When power feels its position is under threat, then all conventions of trust may be abandoned, with the danger of breaking down the social contract between the governed and the governing.
As the “Hustler” president reneges on his electoral promises, disillusioned youth are abandoning mainstream society for the glittering world of social media influencers.
Prison writings are a complex body of work, writings that vividly capture the gruesome experiences lived in the state’s corridors of silence and provide commentary about the state of a society’s politics.