Category: Opinion

By Desiree Lewis and Gabeda Baderoom In the third decade of the new millennium, despite many publishers still seeing black women’s writing as having a limited market, readers have far … Read More

By Jurgen Zimmerer After years of pressure, Germany recently announced that an agreement had been reached to return hundreds of priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted from Nigeria in colonial … Read More

By Edmund Adjapong Nolan Jones Shaun M. Dougherty Music producers Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine have announced plans to open a Los Angeles high school that will focus on, among other things, … Read More

By Tinashe Mshakavanhu After being disenchanted with his work as a detective inspector in Rhodesia’s British South Africa Police, Derek Huggins quit his job and in 1975 decided to open an … Read More

By Lindey Blumell and Dinfin Mulupi Survivors of sexual violence around the world have begun to speak out more in recent years. This has happened partly due to the #MeToo movement, … Read More

By Tembi Mahambehlala The other side must have given Lawrence Matshiza a blow your socks off song welcome. Several notables of the creative world would have sung a lively song … Read More

By Aretha Phiri The recent media furore surrounding the “feud” between the celebrated Nigeria-born African diaspora writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi conflates issues too easily. The very public disagreement began when Adichie … Read More