Culture & Society
‘I Love an Underdog Story’ Celeste Mohammed’s First Draft
Trinidadian author, Celeste Mohammed, started writing Pleasantview to meet the demands of her MFA program. Read More...
First Marathon Olympic Champion Sifan Hassan Won the London Marathon on Her First Attempt
Hassan came into the London Marathon as an underdog. She had never run a marathon, never raced on asphalt, and had never drunk fluids while completing a road race. Hassan trained for the marathon while observing the month-long fast of Ramadan, which restricted her from running lengthy distances as she was unable to eat or drink during the day. Read More...
Resisting Linguistic Genocide How Colonization Shaped Language in Guinea-Bissau
Colonization was an enterprise that not only administratively dominated the colonized territories by having exploited its resources illegitimately and illegally. In Guinea-Bissau as in other formerly colonized regions, colonization was, above all, also an act of cultural alienation of the natives, who saw their traditions belittled and ridiculed, their history suspended, and their languages the preserve of the most uneducated. Read More...
‘Let the Data Guide You’ Zainab Usman’s First Draft
Nigerian author, Zainab Usman, believes the task of economic diversification is Nigeria’s foremost development challenge. Read More...
Beyond Charity Rethinking Hunger Relief in Nigeria
Abundant research shows that investing in adequate nutrition is one of the best value-for-money development actions, but food security is neither seen as a catalyst for economic development nor a right Nigerians are entitled to. Read More...
In the Company of Women On Writing and Reading Women as Historical Actors
Celebrating women should extend to the kinds of stories we tell about women. These stories should reflect the diversity of their lived experiences, the multiplicity of their work, and the varying ways women express their individual thoughts and perspectives. Read More...
What is Special Hair? A Black Woman’s Complicated Hair Journey
Irrespective of what anyone thinks, I have decided that the hair I was born with—this coarse, springy, dark hair that grows towards the sun—is special, not because of its length, thickness, texture, or any reason other than because it is my hair and I have decided to love it. Read More...
On Laboma Beach, the Party Continues Detty December, the Year of Return and a New Era of Africa-Diaspora Relations
The unique pleasures of the Year of Return and Detty December highlight the evolving relationship between Africa and its global diaspora and the need to sustain this growing bond. Read More...
Creating a New Path How Redefining Ethnicity Beyond Traditional Kinship Can Change Nigeria
As Nigeria evolves, the definition of kin must become less related to language and states of origin but to the shared risk from the effect of the decisions made by the administration in power. Read More...
‘Good Writing Elevates Any Subject’ Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte’s First Draft
Nigerian author and researcher, Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte, believes repatriation of looted artefacts is just the first step. Read More...
