African Migrants Dying, African Leaders Silent
African Leaders Are Mute, Even as Their People Die at Sea DAKAR, Senegal — Amid the global cries of alarm over the deaths of African migrants in the Mediterranean […]
Category Archives: Human Rights
Senegalese Graffiti Artist Leaving a Fearless Mark
Senegalese graffiti artist Dieynaba Sidibe is challenging views on women’s roles and calling for equality, one spray-paint can at a time. Growing up in Senegal’s capital of Dakar, Dieynaba Sidibe […]
Israel To Pay Africans $3,500 to Leave
The Israeli government will pay $3,500 grants to African refugees to encourage them to leave the country, it has said. The country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move […]
10 Facts From #BokoHaram Report
10 Facts From Amnesty International’s Latest Boko Haram Report To coincide with the one-year commemoration of the April 14, 2014 mass abduction by Boko Haram of almost 300 […]
The widows of Boko Haram
Despite efforts by women’s groups, thousands of Nigerian widows struggle to survive because of Boko Haram’s insurgency. Maiduguri, Nigeria – For four months and 10 days, Falmata Gana never […]
Fighting Slavery in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based anti-slavery activist group recently released its 2014 Global Slavery Index, detailing the status of 167 countries with regard to each country’s […]
Uganda Fears For Children As Overseas Adoptions Boom
Authorities in Uganda have raised fears that the country’s children are being left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by a staggering increase in unchecked overseas adoptions. An official report, […]
In The Land Of Nigeria’s Kidnapped Girls
On Monday morning, May 12, I sat in the backseat of a Toyota Corolla, headed to Chibok. With a satin abaya draping my body in a sheath of black, and […]
Nigeria’s Ethiopians Protest Abuse In Saudi Arabia
While thousands are decrying the reported abuse of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia, one woman hopes to stir more activism in Africa “I couldn’t sleep. If you see the pictures… […]
Josephat’s Search For Love
In continuing my story profiles on Tanzanian albinos in their struggling experiences to find love and get married (read more here: Love in a Time of Fear: Albino Women’s Stories […]
Afrocentric Confessions 