The Great Green Wall
The Great Green Wall is an African-led project with an epic ambition: to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the…
Africa Speaks
The Story is Always More Important Than the Picture
I was born during the state of emergency in South Africa in the 1980s and witnessed our country’s difficult birth…
Returning to the Home that is no More There
An interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938), a Kenyan writer, is one of the most prominent…
South African Schoolgirls Provide Leadership for the On-going Revolution
The current student protests have their antecedents in the youth movements of 40 years ago. These students are fighting for…
Help Stop My Father’s Hunger Strike
Hold the World Bank Accountable for its Racism: Sign My Petition 28 My father is a man of principles and…
The Young Man Reduced to Ash by the Bloodthirsty Mob was in His Mid-teens. At the Mention of This, I Suddenly Couldn’t Breathe.
A few months back, I sat across from a prosecutor, a black woman of self-worth and enduring spirit, a person…