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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.


South Africa broke photographer Eve Arnold’s heart
The Jazz of Samuel Yirga Mitiku
Shit (some) South Africans say
Julius Malema’s History

Plenty Koko
Music Break. Gasandji

Thrones no one wants to sit on

Senegalese drums
CNN does a story on Abdoulaye Wade’s praise singer, Coumba Gawlo.

Letter to the Republic
The duplicity of France’s ruling classes preoccupy most of this week’s entry – number 10 – of Paris Is a Comment.

There is nothing left in Alexandria
In Egypt, the revolutions of the present may, in the future, become the failed revolutions of the past.
Black Bazar
Football: The 11 Commandments of Rigobert Song
Friday Music Bonus Edition

What was Dikembe Mutombo thinking
Mutombo, a former NBA star, seems in way over his head in a diamond scam. But some of the allegations cited in media reports don’t add up.

Witchcraft and the British Media
Can a belief be condemned as immoral? Or must we accept cultural difference, and merely condemn the acts that follow as a consequence?
Arab Women Filmmakers in Berlin

How to make a movie about Muslims
The South African comedy drama, “Material,” portrays Muslims and Islam without resorting to the regular comedic clichés and slapstick.
The three little pigs
