Love In A Time Of Fear: Albino Women’s Stories From Tanzania
Albino women in Tanzania share stories on love, family and survival in a country where albinos are targets for violence * * * * Grace Medaldi looked for love in […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Jacarandas and Children: Reflections on Tanzania
It’s been exactly three weeks since I left Tanzania and my mind is pregnant with vivid thoughts. I must deliver. On an excursion made possible by the International Reporting Project […]
Yoruba Deities Re-visited
Photographer and Noire 3000 Studios CEO, James Lewis’s presents: The Orisha Experience. This is his photography collection of artistic interpretation of Yoruba deities James C. Lewis James C. Lewis James […]
ICC Treats Us As ‘Niggers’: African Anger
ICC or the International Criminal Court has a long history of ‘double-standards’ particularly when it deals with ‘Africa’ – according to many ‘African Presidents’ at least. The mince no words […]
African Traditional Religions, The Elephant In The Room
Many Africans in one way or another have paid a visit to a traditional priest at some point in their lives in search of divine intervention. Do you remember the […]
Africa And The ‘West’: An Abusive Relationship We Don’t Want to Leave
Today I found myself reading this article about the first female Masai warrior. You will expect to see a strong Masai woman standing on the cover photo right? well sike!!! sorry. Just […]
First Woman Maasai Warrior?
Dear white “saviours”, please get over yourselves. A young white, middle-class woman from California learned on a trip to Kenya that Maasai women were not allowed to become warriors. Apparently, […]
Nigeria Urged To Reduce Child Marriages
Activists believe women’s education and stronger laws will improve life in Africa’s most populous nation. Child marriage – defined as a marital union with a person under the age of […]
The Gaze On Black Bodies
For her exhibition “Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography”, Ayana V Jackson turns to the archives to touch on the representation of black bodies. The flyers pasted around the cobbled streets […]
Study finds growth not helping Africa’s poor
Survey says African countries have failed to reduce poverty despite economic growth experienced over the past decade. Improved economic growth over the past decade in Africa has failed to reduce […]
Afrocentric Confessions 