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Music has often been used as a political tool to urge Kenyans to forget the sins of colonial and post-colonial regimes.
The jazz star says he wants his piano to speak in his isiZulu language, and that his music is born from spiritual concerns.
Women in more prestigious jobs than their husbands were seven times more likely to experience physical and emotional violence, compared to women ranked lower than their husbands.
The Afrobeat star used music to promote and preserve his Yoruba culture - while entertaining diverse global influences.
Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
Undoubtedly, barbarity lies at the epicentre of modernity.
Dilomprizulike’s startling vision has both mesmerised and befuddled art critics and audiences by equal turns.
Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
Senegal’s colonial heritage has been interpreted to conceive an African future, turning colonial heritage into an archive of a possible Afrotopia.
Gomis was the last surviving founder of Orchestra Baobab, Senegal’s most famous band.
The album Follow the Sun shows how South African jazz draws from diversity to speak fluidly across borders.
The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
Heritage sites are sources of historical pride, indigenous knowledge and cultural identity.
Abundantly talented and flawed, apartheid-era writer Can Themba wasn’t afraid to put his body on the line for a story.
The man who taught Fela Kuti a thing or two has been all but erased from formal music history. He deserves much better treatment in death.
He played every venue that mattered, a global face of Afrobeat. Orlando Julius embodied the groove.
Online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.
Statistics on religious affiliation in Africa are often questionable - partly because of religion’s link to ethnicity and politics.
Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world loves South Africa’s biggest house music star.
Public trust and confidence in the police is a concern in many parts of the world. How can Nigeria get it right?
His major work The Quiet Violence of Dreams is about a young man undergoing a mental breakdown, something that the novelist also experienced.
Hountondji both disrupted and shaped ideas on African philosophy. He is a grandfather of today’s decolonial movement.
Magema Fuze’s book was a radical act of publishing. It contained histories of chiefdoms and kingdoms - from the Zulu to the Ngcobo.