A relief art-work showcasing different traditional dances of South Sudan by David Morbe. © The Niles | Aping Kuluel – See more at: http://www.theniles.org/articles/?id=1517#sthash.my5xasYB.dpuf South Sudanese innocent people were caught…
Kuala Lumpur: IAIS-International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, IIUM-International Islamic University of Malaysia Yes, Islam and Christianity are on old Buddhist lands; with Muslim-Buddhist clashes in Sri Lanka,…
INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT On June 13, 1980 Walter Rodney was assassinated in Guyana. Since that date there have been many calls for a commission of inquiry into the…
By Raïs Neza Boneza It takes us four hours to cruise on the peaceful waves of the Lake Kivu, an area that has known decade…
Dinka Panaaru resilience remained unchallengeable despite huge ramification that left by the ongoing war in South Sudan on wide range developmental sectors for just sprout institutions after South…
Some African musicians have ‘risen to the occasion’ with the launch of their own Ebola campaign song intended to be an alternative to Bob Geldo’s “Do They Know Its…
Göran Olsson is a filmmaker from Sweden, well known from his earlier documentary: “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”. The documentary telling about the evolution of the Black Power…
by Sumeet Grover. Director, Global Poetry. The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015. It…
AFRICANGLOBE – For the 10th year since the forcible removal of elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti, the United Nations has renewed the mandate of an occupying…
From the forested depths of the African Congo, among the last of the mountain gorillas comes Virunga, an incredible true story of idealistic conservationists, armed militia, and the…
Protest art exists across all the genres of art. In visual and audio arts, from stand-up comedy to paintings and rap music, protest art is unified by its…
LUCHA is an organisation created in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in June 2012. Both its location and the time…
Andikra 1817 Today, we will talk about Adinkra symbols of the Akanpeople of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The Adinkra symbols are believed to originate in Gyaman, a former…
Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST).© Malawi Cameraman Le Président Peter Mutharika du Malawi a inauguré ce 24 octobre 2014 à Thyolo (à 400 kilomètres de…
Ketty Adong is trying to piece back her life after escaping from LRA rebels. Photos by Rachel Mabala. IN SUMMARY Ketty Adong is a former rebel commander. She…
Doubting critics say the research only encourages female genital mutilation. But you don’t help women by telling them they’re ‘mutilated’, the researchers argue. Sexual pleasureWhen Professor Sara Johnsdotter…
A long the road to Gulu, it is clear that life has returned to normal. This is evidenced by children playing by the roadside, women riding bicycles loaded…
Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he had lived since 1989. He had been living…
“That I’m alive today proves the power of the photo and that the only viable and sustainable challenge to oppression is through art and beauty.Photography for me…
I’ve been intrigued by this tribe ever since I heard about them while listening to Dr. Wayne Dyer speak on their unique tradition. Take a moment to…
Ngugi I am no literature professor or literary giant per se, I write from my humble opinion as a student of the Ivory Tower where I witnessed how…
INTRODUCTION As the Ebola outbreak rages, and there are projections of more than 1.4 million persons infected in the next few months, the African Union and the regional…
Beijing should listen to its own excellent mantra: “One Country, Two Systems”. A part of that other system is democracy. England never practiced that during 150 years of…
The new book, ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story,’ explores the blurred connection between corporations and the foundations they endow. What follows in this essay might appear to some to…
There are times when farce and living caricature almost consume the cynicism and mendacity in the daily life of Australia’s rulers. Across the front pages is a photograph…