Culture, Arts & Identity
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Model Shares Photos Of Horrifying ‘No Afro’ Casting Calls
If it’s important to celebrate every bit of progress toward true diversity in the fashion and beauty industries ― and it is…
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“I am the Nile”, Pusch Commey
A new African Writers Series title chronicles the exploits of Africa’s great kings and queens of yore. After the death…
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Remembering Chinua Achebe: 10 quotes from selected works
March 21, marked the 3rd anniversary of the death of one of Africa’s literary giants Albert Chinualumogu Achebe who passed…
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12 Times African Women Made History In 2016
It’s only March, but African women are already killing it just as hard as last year. In theater, an entirely…
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Ntsiki Mazwai’s open letter to black people
Dear Black people…. So let me get this right….. u wear white people’s hair; you bleach your skin; you wear…
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Chimamanda Adichie on What Americans Get Wrong About Africa
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of books like Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. In this animated interview,…
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Who Counts as Black?
For generations, intimacy between black men and white women was taboo. A mere accusation of impropriety could lead to a…
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Has the pan-African hour come? A review of The Making of the Africa-Nation
Book review of The Making of the Africa-Nation: Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance. Edited by Prof Mammo Muchie. Published by…
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“What can we do for ‘the worst place in the world’”? Surely this play, is not the thing.
By ROCHELLE BURGESS As an Africanist and a woman of color, I make it a mission to support diversity in storytelling.…
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South Sudan: AU Weighs Sending Troops to South Sudan
By Ivan Mugisha The African Union (AU) is considering sending troops to South Sudan, as a last resort to quell…
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WATCH: Real South African abortion stories
WARNING: While the content in the video above is not graphic, the stories told may upset sensitive viewers. We interviewed…
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Undress for redress: The rise of naked protests in Africa
“Women give life and so to put the most private symbols of motherhood into the public arena is to negate…
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Angola yellow fever outbreak could spark ‘global crisis’
Geneva – A deadly yellow fever outbreak in Angola, which has already spread the disease as far as China, risks…
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Angola yellow fever outbreak could spark 'global crisis'
Geneva – A deadly yellow fever outbreak in Angola, which has already spread the disease as far as China, risks…
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South Africa: Woman Warns Young Girls – Stay Away From Sugar Daddies
By Karabo Ngoepe, News24 Growing up in abject poverty, Vinolia Masilo, 25, found herself dating older men just so that…
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