Essay on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Sparks Controversy
An essay on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o by Kenyan journalist Carey Baraka sparked controversy recently.
Baraka spent three days with Ngũgĩ at his home in California...
Kenyan writer decline invitation to give lecture at Makerere over anti homosexuality law
The anti-gay bill passed in Uganda is gratuitous in its cruelty. It criminalises the human body, speech, thought, intent, literature, music and language. In short it criminalises...
23 African Feminist Books for the Aspiring Revolutionary
This week in our book recommendation series in celebration of women’s history month, we present a booklist for all those readers who want to...
Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa rails against social media disinformation in ‘How to Stand Up to a Dictator’
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a...
Book review: The girl child; Growing to Become a Woman of Value
In the course of the 1980s and 1990s the US philanthropy body: Carnegie Corporation of New York sustained a sociology Think Tank, "Carnegie Commission...
