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5 Questions for Filmmaker: Branwen Okpako
Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.


The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.

The violation of Genoveva Añonma
Football officials are supposed to be advocates for the beautiful game and for footballers - irrespective of gender. But the treatment of female players with regard to gender testing is deplorable.

African Cup of Nations memories
We've teamed up with brand new soccer kit supplier AMS (like them on Facebook) to give you the chance to win a Sierra Leone or South Sudan kit.

The Baddest
Hipster's Don't Dance's Top 10 UK-based Afrobeats Tunes of 2014.

A homage to historian Terence Ranger
In Terence Ranger, politics and history, nationalism and scholarship, intersected in ways rarely seen. Zimbabwe and Africa, will forever be in his debt.

The first and only woman to be charged by the ICC
The trials and tribulations of Cote d'Ivoire's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

White Lives Matter
An angry and desperate review of the five phases of blackness: innocence and oblivion, confusion, awakening and shame, anger, and survival.