The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the International Development Economic Associates (IDEAS),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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)…