News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
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Rwanda and the New York Times
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
‘Township’ is a Planet for Aliens
If you only visit South African townships to confirm your prejudices and not to experience them the way they are, stay away.
Lupita Nyong’o and the Mexicans
The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?
Latin America is a country
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to counter the notion that everything in Latin America can be understood only through Euro-American lenses.
Nene Leakes’ ‘African tribal dance’
“He said, ‘Hunni nobody can do this, you’re the only person here who can do this.
A History of Nigeria’s Police Service
Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #1
Listen to Africa is a Country Radio every month on Groovalizacion. March’s episode was the first
Race Science Files: New York Times edition
Just what level of racist insanity does an "expert" have to exhibit before the New York Times starts to think they're not an expert?
Intimacy in Africa, on film
Bringing attention to African filmmakers who challenge prevalent cinematic depictions of the continent.
Who are Boko Haram, and how did they come to be?
This is currently Boko Haram's structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.