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Aninoritse Ejuliuwa Weaves Africa’s Resilience into a Pantoum

Herein, Aninoritse discusses her new poem "Trickles and Torrents". What’s the creative…

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Trickles And Torrents

These things began in tricklesThe age-long pinch in our features, the halts…

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3 Kenyan Films Changing the Narrative of Stereotypical African Stories

In his song Lwanda Magere, the legendary Kenyan hip hop artist Khaligraph…

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How to be Sad in an African Home (a 3-Step Guide to Gloom)

There is no way to say this without sounding ungrateful: being happy…

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First Mover Significance and the Ingenuity of New Adopters in African Creative Industry

Stories have origins, but what converts them to history is the presence…

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How Young Nigerian Creatives are Coping with Inaccess to the Right Tools

"When I first started writing," says Destiny, a promising writer and voice-over artist…

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This Is How You Move On From Grief That Has Run It’s Course as a Comforter

Grief - the bitter pill we all have to swallow at one…

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Onyeka Nwelue Believes Africa is a Graveyard of Wasted Dreams

The Nigerian filmmaker, publisher, talk-show host, bookseller, author, serial founder, and contemporary…

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Why I Never Want Kids of My Own Even Though I Love Children

My big sister welcomed her first child on a beautiful, bright Saturday…

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Islamophobia In One Of The Most Dangerous Countries For Christians

I come from a secular country with a profoundly religious society.  After…

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Chidera Anikpe Asks His Mother About Death

Herein, Chidera discusses his new poem, "How To Love A Boy For…

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How To Love A Boy For Whom Blue Is Not Merely A Color

Deadness sits on his wrist;Thin slits of spilling redness; the life waterThat…

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From Afrobeat to Afro-x: A Brief Account of the Evolution of the Genre

Since the death of Nigerian instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Afrobeat…

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How the Patriarchy Wars Against the African Man’s Mental Health

We don't talk enough about the mental health of the African man,…

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Is Hollywood Ever Going to Stop Viewing Africa Through Neocolonial Lenses?

Westerners have a long and continuous history of deliberately portraying the African…

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