Browsing: Africa

There’s a huge need for Black-owned bookstores in the US. And it’s a need that’s just got bigger after North Carolina’s very first had to shutter…

As the world remembers Martin Luther King Jr. – assassinated at the age of just 39 – we want to make sure, on this dark anniversary,…

Few things exemplify the depravity of the West than former US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law calling on Israel to ‘clear out’ Gaza’s civilian population to ‘finish…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro recently speculated at a meeting of Caribbean and Latin American leaders that Western countries may be supporting Israel’s bombardment and siege of…

From the election of Africa’s youngest president in Senegal to the tragic Baltimore bridge collapse in the US, here’s our weekly photo dump. Lyon, France –…

Activist and academic Ramona Edelin – famous for popularising the term ‘African-American’ – has died at the age of 78. She argued that the diaspora must…

The 25th of March is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During four centuries, between 10-12 million Africans…

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…

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,…

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 -…