In Nigeria, neglected women bear the shame of fistulas
At least 500,000 women have vaginal fistulas, largely as a result of lack of medical care during pregnancy and labor JOS, Nigeria — After giving birth five times, all Amina […]
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The Afro-German Experience Under Hitler
January 27 is the UN’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorated to remember the liberation of Auschwitz, largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers But I am writing this […]
African Superheroes
You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The World I borrowed the title of this post, “African Superheroes, You Don’t Have To Be White To Save The […]
White South African Sangoma
Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves to a frantic drum […]
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 […]
TAIYE SELASI: I Am Not My Hair
I leapt from high-maintenance hair to an all-natural crop—and found a tangle of emotion and politics caught up in all the curls. Recently my best friend, Heather McGhee—the […]
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 […]
Portraits: Former slaves in America
January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. To commemorate the occasion, new photos have been released showing some of the men and women […]
Nigeria’s Woman Problem
In my city, Abuja, an NGO called the Society against Prostitution and Child Labour has been collaborating with the city’s Environmental Protection Board to round up any woman found on […]
Sounds of Kinshasa
Sounds of Kinshasa: music, dance and culture are a lifeline in Congo The Congolese have long been neglected by those in power, doing what they can to get by in […]
