Browsing: Diaspora

In March 1979, the revolutionary New JEWEL Movement (with JEWEL standing for ‘Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation’) overthrew Grenada’s Western-aligned government of Eric Gairy…

Today, we celebrate what would have been Walter Rodney’s 83rd birthday. Rodney was killed at the age of 38 in a bomb explosion in the Guyanese…

Hundreds of Kenyans have died in Saudi Arabia in the last five years – victims of a modern-day system of exploitation disguised as labour migration. Most…

We present you the story of Nearest Green, the first known Black master distiller in history – and the man who taught Jack Daniel the art…

Words represent ideas, and in the long-running @BBC tradition, the news outlet is once again attributing death-toll figures in Gaza to a ‘H*mas-run health ministry.’ Framing…

So Charles III is into African music, it seems. The British monarch shared a playlist that features Afrobeats star Davido’s hit Kante and Miriam Makeba’s The…

At the 12 March US House of Representatives hearing on religious persecutions in Nigeria, Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith called on Congress and the Trump administration…

Much of the world shunned apartheid South Africa in the 1970s. However, one country, Israel, found a natural ally in Pretoria’s racially discriminatory government, according to…

Rwanda and Belgium have just expelled each other’s diplomats tit for tat, as tensions between the two escalate over what Kigali claims are Brussels’ efforts to…

The US has expelled South Africa’s ambassador over his critical remarks about Donald Trump, alleging the president is mobilising fears that White people will become a…