Author: Dennis Kahohi

This week’s Facts of the Week centre on our missing artefacts – missing, that is, from Africa. We know where many of them are: in European…

Our African proverb of the week comes from Ghana and offers some humour paired with a deep message. Sometimes we need to adjust our position to…

Seventy per cent of Baltimore is Black, and its homicide rate makes it one of the most dangerous cities in the world. For the last decade,…

Do you know the story of John C. Robinson? He was an African-American pilot who volunteered to help Ethiopia in its resistance against Italian fascist colonialism.…

You’ve heard of Brexit, but have you heard of CapeXit?  It’s a movement calling for South Africa’s Western Cape – as well as potentially other parts…

Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o was in for a surprise when she met in April 2023 with Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on his PBS…

From Palestinian flags held high in Abuja to drums beating a thousand times for a ceasefire in Gaza, here’s our weekly photo dump Abuja, Nigeria -…

On this day two years ago, the 64th US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, died aged 84. Her legacy in Africa and the Middle East is…

Revolutionary Guyanese writer and activist Walter Rodney was born on this day in 1942. We remember the guerrilla intellectual, who left a lasting legacy on academia…

Widely considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer the world has ever seen, the legacy of Muhammad Ali extends far beyond the ring. Throughout his career,…