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Coca-Cola has often been entangled with key political moments in Africa since its arrival in the early 1900s.
There’s a big difference between how Hollywood audiences view Black Panther and how African audiences do.
The plant’s African past provides insight into emerging issues in humanity’s interactions with cannabis.
Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
Few film-makers imagined Black women as a primary audience. This has changed over time.
The authorities have linked sport to nation building and tourism, and thrown their weight behind football.
Aso ebi - colourful fabrics worn at social events in NIgeria - makes parties glamorous but the cost can also be burdensome.
She reveals a range of African experiences: from traders to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart surgeons.
From the 1950s to the early 1970s the carnival was a place for queer expression and attracted performers from as far away as Brazil.
His photos and videos depicting postcolonialism and everyday life in Africa have been overlooked.
A new book explores how Cape Town became a hub for African opera.
Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
The extraordinary documentary Ballaké Sissoko: Kora Tales takes a journey from Mali to The Gambia.
The philosophy of ubuntu means that good health is for everybody and disability is not regarded as a difference.
Primary identities are foundational and serve as the core part of an individual’s identity.
His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
It’s about more than wasteful destruction; it’s a way of restoring dignity to marginalised young lives.
Social media is a lifeline for community radio, helping it grow by being shaped by young listeners.
Kiptum – and to some extent Kipchoge – have done just enough to make the ‘sub-2’ moment a likely reality in the next few years.
Divisions and tensions in the global church are affecting the church in Africa.
Costume, hair and dance allow her to modernise Tsonga culture – and help shape youth identity.
Victims of witchcraft accusations face alienation or exclusion from their communities.
The book makes invaluable contributions to subjects of race, identity and belonging and how they shape human interrelations.
Despite harsh laws, a growing number of African countries are representing queer life in their cinema.