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Let’s me tell you what is on the world news agenda for the next months: world overpopulation! Some people think the world is becoming overpopulated. And, surprisingly Africa takes the center of…
From 7th to 20th April 2015, the 13th edition of the Paris Human Rights International Film Festival offers a rich edition with a selection of 33 films, including for nearly half the…
Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award-winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from June 16 to June 26 2015. The workshop…
The agitated people of a nation mourn, weep, protest and question the heinous rape and murder of a young woman, Jyoti Singh, whilst life in its many manifestations continues in slums, urban…
Tom Burgis’ The Looting Machine is a rollercoaster read. Filled with vignettes on spooks, smugglers and kleptocratic warlords with suitcases of cash, it reads like a crime thriller, while at the same…
On the occasion of the 8 March International Women’s Day, Kimpa Vita Press present you an inteview of Mildred Aristide done by haitisolidarity.net Mildred Aristide is an attorney, who as former First…
SHARE: Across The King’s River is an upcoming documentary film about a man embarking on a journey from East Oakland to Nigeria, on a deeply personal quest for knowledge and…
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 Assassination. The government in…
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 Christmas?” which was released…
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 movement in the black…
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 narrates at least one…
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 “peacekeeping force” in 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 socially conscious message and…
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 if its founding correspond…
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 started studying Somali women…
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 with his family and…
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 “word politics” (the basis…
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 bloc ECOWAS have taken…
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 be a somewhat harsh…
In its State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 report (SOFI 2014), which has just been released, the ‘world’ according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) excludes North…
On September 4, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and…
British actor Idris Elba is gearing up to release a Mandela-inspired eleven-track album in November. mi Mandela, “a celebration of South African music inspired by Nelson Mandela,” its subheader reads, is a joint UK-South Africa project…
“From the beginning of our century until now, Haiti and its inhabitants under one aspect or another have, for various reasons, been very much in the thoughts of the American people. While…
South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo report on the illegal eviction of shacks in an occupied settlement by municipal authorities. Evictions at the Chris Hani (eNsimbini) and Marikana (Cato Crest)…
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” – Paulo Freire,…
