"Last week in Kenya, I became a witness to police empowering the elite in much the same way as their counterparts in South Africa did".
Solidarity is built when the tears flow easily between friends and laughter follows – binding them in mutual vulnerability
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
‘Part of the disconnect between writers and white publishers has been ingrained in this belief that a certain demographic of people does not read’
To be a woman in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe means to be in perpetual fear of some form of abuse at the hands of men
Raila Odinga’s National Super Alliance will contest Kenya’s recent election results after all
There is something hopeful about middle-class people before elections, we all believe that our position matters and our vote will count.
South Africa and the world are all the poorer for not having access to this important text. And I feel all the richer for it
Three different countries with three different democracies are headed to elections in August. Simon Allison attempts to summarise them.
"As artists then, maybe it is time we seriously consider how better to strengthen synergies with our siblings on the continent."