The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
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Writers have challenged oppression, exposed social injustices and advocated for political change.
Danfo drivers are often intolerant, bringing down the image of Lagos as a destination.
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Queer theory tells us that people’s identities are complex. If all research subjects are approached this way, we can understand their responses more fully.
More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
The Camões Prize is the most important award for Portuguese literature, and Paulina Chiziane is the first African woman to receive it.
The restitution of looted objects from former colonies in Africa is an essential component of post-colonial reparation.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
Studies show unisex toilets don’t lead to violence – and they create a safer space for gender diverse people.
Africans should get more credit for the abolition of the slave trade.
Maman Creppy was one of Togo’s original Nana Benzes who had created a powerful wax cloth empire.
The history of Christian nonconformism should lead church leaders to look with sympathy on gay Ugandans’ situation today.
You can count on Mama Ngina Kenyattta to defend the family name, in good times and bad.
Novelist Petina Gappah’s call for translators on Facebook has resulted in the publication of Chimurenga Chemhuka.
Peter Enahoro, Nigerian journalist, columnist and author, died on 24 April 2023.
Musicians established themselves in the US, where they continued to practice their cultural life, which flourished.
Lagos is famous for its congested traffic. Cycling could help change this image.
The naming of streets, places and landmarks in colonial Nairobi was used to show the political, ideological and ethnic dominance of the British.
In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
His books bring north Africa into conversation with sub-Saharan Africa about lived queer experiences.
Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.
We need deep-time African urban history and theories to make sense of contemporary urban life and anticipate its future possibilities in African terms.