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Afrocentricity: An Important Feature of the Pan African Tradition
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A petition to stop the Blantyre City Council, Malawi from erecting Mahatma Gandhi's statue is circulating online, citing Gandhi's racism towards Black people. In 2016, lecturers of the University of Ghana petitioned the University of Ghana Council to have Gandhi's statue removed, because of his “racist identity” and numerous racist statements attributed to him in his lifetime.
Africans have steadfastly responded to oppression through culture.
Kiswahili will be easy for South Africans to learn compared to foreign languages from outside Africa
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Cesaria Evora was a Cape Verdean singer and Grammy Award-winning artist known for singing the island’s little-known blues style, morna. She earned the nickname “Barefoot Diva”, based on her fondness for going without shoes while giving voice to the emotional chronicles of her country’s bitter history.
Can Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed overcome the country's contemporary history of tribal politics?
Afro-centricity, a feature of Pan-Africanism presents Africa with a remedy to the effects of Euro-centrism. It’s time Africans recognized the importance of viewing issues from the African perspective in order to reap the full benefits Afro-centricity offers.
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When people hear the term “sex positivity”, they think it is about having sex with everyone all the time, or having sex in wild and messy ways. In fact, sex positivity is about having a healthy and fulfilling sex life – no matter what that looks like, says Kagure Mugo.
African governments and their partners have a duty to prioritise the health of women and children through the provision of contraceptives.
Hook-up culture, whether we acknowledge it or not, is prevalent. People are having casual sex all the time, yet there seems to be a lack of common understanding on the rules of engagement. With the help of a group of 30 somethings, we established a few universal dos and don’ts.
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A Black cis bisexual femme shares her experiences with anxiety disorder, and antidepressant medication, and how the treatment has impacted on her sex life. The medication has had side effects including a lack of sexual desire, orgasmic dysfunction (anorgasmia) and sexual frustration.
Masturbation is natural and healthy and benefits our relationships with ourselves and our partners in more ways than one, says Joyline Maenzanise
Every step that was taken at the eSwatini Pride March is a mark on history, says Zanta Nkumane
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Even with the end of the war in central Africa, continuing instability in the region has triggered an epidemic of rape.
The Congolese physician has treated over 20,000 victims of traumatic rape in a conflict fueled in part by 'conflict minerals' used to make cellphones.
The prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
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Internet taxes could stifle Africa's free and vibrant social media.
DJ Zhao travelled to Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. The following are personal observations and anecdotes, not meant to be definitive of the places described. These are his experiences.
Nigeria celebrates independence, but 58 years after liberation, its young people feel excluded from participating in governance and decision making. Even with the recently passed “not too young to run” law, many of the young people believe the future is bleak and the status quo is unlikely to change.
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Foreign shop-owners in South Africa are accused of selling counterfeit food and food beyond its sell-by date. These claims are driven by politically charged opinions, not evidence.
The Rwanda Tribunal convicted people for indescribably horrific crimes and some are asking for early release.
Samasource is social enterprise on a mission. Its aim is to reduce global poverty by outsourcing digital work to unemployed people in impoverished countries.
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51 years ago, the federal government of Nigeria engaged in a bloody civil war with the secessionist Republic of Biafra. In this exclusive interview with This is Africa, Christopher Ejiofor, a former top military adviser during the war recalls the bitter memories of the war and how they lost everything. He talks about how the British colonial set-up caused the war and the current agitation by the Indigenous Republic of Biafra
Dr Richard Munang is a climate change and development policy expert. Here he talks about his latest book.
Fatou Kandé Senghor is a Senegalese artist and filmmaker. She talks about the pan-African icons of her youth, the icons of Senegalese society, and the difficulties of passing on their lessons to her daughters in the digitalised and globalised 21st century.
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Natasha Museveni, the daughter of Uganda’s long-time president, Yoweri Museveni, has directed a biographical film titled “27 Guns” that charts her father's journey from rebel leader to power. It is the second-biggest Ugandan film of 2018 to open to a star-studded audience.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Dr. Denis Mukwege has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018. Dr Mukwege was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi-Kurdish human rights activist for “their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.
Visiting selected African countries for the first time, Melania Trump’s solo tour started in Ghana, where the 'emotional' American First Lady lay a wreath for lost souls at the country’s House of Slaves. She referred to the location’s past happenings as “a tragedy”.
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William Nicol Drive in Johannesburg, South Africa will be named after Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in honour of the revolutionary anti-Apartheid icon. There are loud calls from various groups to also rename Cape Town International Airport after Winnie for her contribution in the struggle.
Once featured on many “top five greatest of all time” lists but now infamous rapper Kanye West says he is headed to Africa to finish his delayed upcoming album, ‘Yandhi’. Africans on Twitter made it clear that while he remains in the sunken place, his visit is far from being eagerly anticipated.
The 2018 UNHCR Nansen Refugee award was presented to South Sudanese medical doctor and surgeon Dr Evan Atar Adaha for his "20-year commitment in providing medical services to people forced to flee conflict and persecution in Sudan and South Sudan.” Dr. Atar runs the only functional hospital in Upper Nile State.
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