African Homosexual Demon
This is not an essay. A few days ago, Kenyan novelist, Wainaina Binyavanga, tweeted a set of remarks he called “a brief scientific history of demons.” Aaron Bady of New Inquiry compiled and edited them into […]
Category Archives: Society
Nigerian State Raises Tabs To Curb Divorce
If you live in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, it will cost you $300 to divorce your wife. The new law has been introduced to curb the rocketing divorce […]
African Men Don’t Do Feminists
Ask an African man what he thinks about feminists. Go ahead, and record their answers so you can email it to me later. I like a good laugh to start […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Heaven On Earth? Maidens Made In Tanga Tanzania
Tanzanian freelance journalist, Erick Kabendera, writes about the traditions and customs in Tanzania’s Tanga region related to women and sexuality. Tanga women pass down ideas to girls on how a […]
Nigeria: Interpretations of Racism
I will call him Smith, my White friend. I admired him, in my days of naiveté, for once berating a waiter who attended to him, with overdone courtesies, before turning […]
Afrocentric Confessions 