The Empty Stomach Entrepreneur
By Peter Kidi in Kakuma This poem is born from life in a refugee camp, but they speak to experiences shared by displaced communities everywhere....
By Kylie Thomas Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured...
Pops Mohamed mixed old and new to reinvent South African music
An orbituary By Gwen Ansell Pops Mohamed is dead: He was committed to a South African musical identity, Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz...
The wandering souls of Sudan after 500 days of starving out El Fashir
A ragged horizon, chunks of rubble protruding from the ground like rotten teeth, and refugees resembling walking skeletons. This is how Sudanese artist Adlan...
How visual arts in Kenya capture the state of the country
In the hills just outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, lies the home of visual artist Evanson Kangethe, along a dirt road. Born in 1961,...
The bookseller in the frontline
The girls from Butere Secondary School were overwhelmed by a choking haze of tear gas. It happened in early April in the town of...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: one of Africa’s greatest writers has gone
By Peter Kimani He understood the politics of his time Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is regarded as one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time. He grew...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness
By Daria Tunca What’s the story about? Dream Count tells the intersecting stories of four African women. The novel recounts the characters’ hopes, dreams and struggles,...
Amadou Bagayoko is dead. He was part of “the blind couple of Bamako”
Introduction: With their conviction, talent, strong melodies and good production, Amadou & Mariam became hugely successful. They made lovely music that makes you happy. On...
