Renowned Author and Feminist, bell hooks, Has Died RxNews 16 December 2021
bell hooks’ works not just tackled subjects like race, gender, class, history, and sexuality but also love and friendship. Read more. Read More...
A Barrel of Rotten Apples How a Judicial Crisis Has Flourished Under Buhari’s Watch
The problems of the judicial system in Nigeria predate both the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and even this current republic. Read more. Read More...
‘What We Read Lives in Our Heads’ Sangu Delle’s First Draft
Entrepreneur, investor and author of ‘Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa’, Sangu Delle, thinks success is ‘overhyped’ and has been studying how people fail. Read our interview. Read More...
Feminism vs Womanism Scanning Buchi Emecheta’s Oeuvre
The liberation of the Black woman and the proclamation of this side-lined group as essential and complex parts of womanhood is the ultimate theme of Emecheta’s writing. Read more. Read More...
Kehinde: Mother, Woman Identity Formation in Buchi Emecheta’s ‘Kehinde’
In 'Kehinde‘, Emecheta used brutal ‘documentary-style’ realism to showcase the plights of women in patriarchal societies, and often, the question that lay beneath was, what would our world be if women were freed from toxic gender roles? Read more. Read More...
Upon Mount Zion, There Shall Be Deliverance The Church and My Political Awakening
The church was where I had my political awakening. For nearly five years, weekly sermons, prayer sessions and testimonies, gave me an education, about being African in the UK, that I couldn’t get in school. Read more. Read More...
Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa
Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more. Read More...
‘I Now Know How to Write in Short Bursts.’ Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ First Draft
Academic and founder and editor of Brittle Paper, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, has often heard that the African novel is simply the European novel with African themes. Read our interview. Read More...
Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya
Student activism in Kenya is a form of protest and resistance against oppression. At its very heart, it is also a demonstration of leadership and the capacity for mass mobilization. Read more. Read More...
Buchi Emecheta’s ‘The Joys Of Motherhood’ A Precursor to Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts
‘The Joys of Motherhood’ could be considered as one of the forebears of feminist issues on reproductive justice and culture within the rich Nigerian literary tradition. Read more. Read More...
