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Why the Conflict in Congo Is an African Feminist Struggle

Feza Lugoma·April 20, 2025

The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo represents more than an isolated humanitarian crisis; it reveals a continental feminist struggle where Congolese women, far from passive victims, lead resistance against the same extractive capitalism that exploits women across Africa. Read More...

April/May 2025 Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Language of Violence

Ancci·April 20, 2025

South African poet Qhali’s Crying in My Mother’s Tongue: Ukulila, is a searing meditation on language and identity, intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, healing, and the intimate ties of motherhood and family. Read More...

April/May 2025 Reading South Africa

Exploring Global Mobility with Alma Asinobi

Osione Oseni-Elamah·April 20, 2025

Nigerian travel and lifestyle content creator, Alma Asinobi, is on a mission to redefine global exploration by making travel accessible to those with low mobility passports. Read More...

Africa April/May 2025 Interviews

Who Pays When Africans Fall Sick?

Anodi Kaihula·April 20, 2025

Across Africa, millions in the informal sector remain uninsured—not from apathy, but due to the exclusionary nature of health systems. In Tanzania and beyond, digital innovations offer promising models for more inclusive health insurance. Read More...

April/May 2025 Tanzania

Reading Gabriel García Márquez in Nairobi

Dennis Mugaa·April 20, 2025

With the recent Netflix adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, I recount what it meant to read his work as a young writer living in Nairobi. Read More...

April/May 2025 Kenya

Writers and the Fictional Women Characters They Love

Ijapa O·April 20, 2025

In our First Draft interviews, we asked prominent women authors about the fictional women characters that they love. Here’s what they told us. Read More...

April/May 2025 First Draft Interviews

7 Books Perfect for a Nollywood Film Adaptation

Ijapa O·April 20, 2025

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of seven books that are perfect for Nollywood film adaptations. From the story of a man who mysteriously transforms into a white person, constituting a biting satire about a race relations in Nigeria, to a brilliant woman’s account of her experiences in the male-dominated scene of Nigerian politics, the books on this list will certainly make blockbuster films! Read More...

April/May 2025 Read Something African Reading

The Charged Politics of an African Passport

Mustapha Isa·April 13, 2025

Africans remain constrained within and outside the continent due to their passports, which have hindered the exploration of global opportunities. Read More...

Africa April/May 2025

The Beauty Tax on Nigeria’s Poorest Women

Foyin Ejilola·April 13, 2025

When it comes to beauty standards and how women defy or succumb to them, the discourse takes on a new meaning for Nigerian women on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. For them, attaining the ‘ideal’ appearance is a measure of beauty and class. Read More...

April/May 2025 Nigeria

The Tragedy of an Evil Genius

Afolabi Adekaiyaoja·April 13, 2025

Babangida’s attempt to tell his own story or shape his own legacy through his memoir, A Journey in Service, falls short of expectations raising questions about whether the book should have been written at all. Read More...

April/May 2025 Nigeria Reading

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