The arts scene is booming in the self-declared republic of Somaliland but, as the BBC’s Mary Harper writes, the people who are pushing the…
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Quel rôle pourraient jouer les femmes, dans la prévention et la résolution des crises et conflits armés dans le bassin du lac Tchad
Le Bassin du Lac Tchad s’est distingué, ces dernières années, par une densification de la conflictualité, avec, en première ligne, la guerre menée par…
If one is to credit the hypothetical, then the success of the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho began very much in Africa. This came after…
Why the book endures, even in an era of disposable digital culture. By Timothy Egan Not long ago I found myself inside the hushed…
Prize-winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina has died after a short illness at the age of 48. He won the Caine Prize for African writing…
Le Sénégal, à l’instar de nombreux autres pays de son espace régional, reste fortement marqué des contraintes et pesanteurs d’un substrat socio anthropologique où…
Carrie Tangenberg Today’s guest post is a Q&A by Sangeeta Mehta (@sangeeta_editor), a former acquiring editor of children’s books at Little, Brown and Simon &…
With great sadness, the community of Cameroonian scholars, students and artists and curators, learnt of the demise of Dr Fongot Kini Yen-Kinni on Monday…
by Daniel Lattier Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit an article to an academic…
By Jan Bornman Photography by Madelene Cronje Blessing Tsakatsa shrugged off the fact that he wouldn’t be able to afford a bus ticket home to…