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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.
Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Il est temps de répartir les droits de télévision entre plusieurs diffuseurs et d'éviter un monopole.
Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
Gender plays a major role in how mourning is done by the Akan ethnic group of Ghana
Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
International career mobility can give people valuable knowledge and expertise to be used in their home country.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.