Cameroon’s Axis of Power
How Israel, France, and the US shape the Anglophone Crisis. Read More...
Month: October 2024
Not Just Another Woman’s Story
In her film, With Difficulty Comes Ease, Korede Azeez captures, with illuminating patience, the story of Nigerian women. She tells the story of women living under constant scrutiny, where their every action or inaction is subject to critical and often unjust judgment. Read More...
Chidimma Adetshina and the Danger of Xenophobia
The rejection of Chidimma Adetshina by the South African public perhaps reflects a complex post-apartheid conception of Blackness—and more specifically, Black womanhood—that is rigid and unaccommodating to those who differ, whether by ethnicity or nationality. Read More...
Are Indie Creators the Future of Talk Shows in Nigeria?
Talk shows in Nigeria have undergone a revolution with the rise of indie creators who have adopted confessional-style videos and personality interviews. Read More...
The Political Dilemmas of Tanzania’s Music Artists
Owing to stifled freedom of speech coupled with minimal structural support, Tanzanian music artists are finding themselves without any political space beyond praising the ruling government. Read More...
7 Books That Bring Elderly Characters to Life
In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that bring elderly characters to life. Whether featuring a closeted grandpa in the UK or a sexually liberated seventy-five-year-old Nigerian woman in San Francisco, the books on this list prove that great fiction can centre around elderly characters too! Read More...
Writers and the Contemporary Books They Believe Will Become Future Classics
In our past First Draft interviews, we asked leading African writers about the contemporary books they believe will become classics in the future. Here’s what they told us. Read More...
How To Wean Nigeria Off The ‘Feeding-Bottle’ Federalism
At the heart of Nigeria’s federalist gambit is the agitation by states for greater control over their local mineral resources. But in a fiscally federal Nigeria, who gets what, when and how? Read More...
The True Cost of Female Agency
In her debut collection, Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda challenges our assumptions about the complexities of female relationships, heightening the outcomes by casting them in, and sometimes against, a city that is both magnificent and macabre. Read More...
Kenya’s Season of Protests
Earlier this year, a new young generation of Kenyans went out to protest a crippling finance bill and a government that is undermining their future. The protests, though met by brutal state violence, have fundamentally shifted the Kenyan political landscape. Read More...
