Articles on African diaspora
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In these spaces, lifelong relationships can be formed through the love of cinema.
Africa does not lack household savings, but only a small share of these are placed in formal institutions.
In new research, young African Australians speak about how they get vital information about their culture and identity on social media.
The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
Even as Chido Muchemwa’s characters move between countries, generations and identities, they are tied by their desire for care.
The Dakar Biennale is a gathering of artists, curators, academics and art lovers with a unique form of generosity and inclusion.
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
Around one-third of the players that have been called up to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations were born outside of Africa.
Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
The UN working group visited Australia for the first time in December last year. Their task was to evaluate the human rights situation of people of African descent living in Australia.
Musicians established themselves in the US, where they continued to practice their cultural life, which flourished.
The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.
Both residents and Sudanese in the diaspora invested in homes to secure the future. Now the conflict is destroying hope.
There are fears that escalating US-Chinese tensions could threaten the independence of African and other nonaligned nations.
People’s Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar released a choreographed video to Davido’s Stand Strong, which references devotion. It’s his sixth time standing for president.
Gifts that migrants bring back home deny recipient countries taxes and reinforce the belief that local items are inferior.
The AU’s first two decades have largely represented a magical, mystical world of unfulfilled expectations.
Social media can offer Black African young people in Australia safe spaces to engage in positive expressions of afro-Blackness.


















