KAMPALA, UGANDA- A group of about five men pushing wooden wheelbarrows full of garbage to an illegal dumping site in a Kampala suburb got into a scuffle with the landowner and their wheelbarrows were...
Who told the Nigerian DSP and the bulk of Nigerian populace that dreadlocks and tattoos were foreign to our culture? The popular #EndSARS campaign began in December of 2017, after a Twitter user...
With the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) assault on Libya’s capital Tripoli continuing after a month, with little serious condemnation from regional or international powers, it seems the conflicts...
For Eritreans fleeing their country, knowing one journalist’s phone number can be their only chance for survival. Meron Estefanos runs a radio phone-in-show from her home in Stockholm, Sweden, to...
In junior secondary school, one of my teachers used the following example to illustrate the difference between potential and kinetic energy: potential energy is the energy a ball possesses when...
In an effort to seize a career opportunity and a chance to work with Lensational, that I thought was doing a phenomenal job with women and girls through the lens, no one, not even I or Bonnie, would...
Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen is the second of the three debut novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist, alongside The Chimes and Did You Ever Have a Family. In very different ways to The...
Running April 15th-26th the Tribeca Film Festival, NYC’s own Hollywood on the Hudson, has become a borderline unwieldy affair over the past few years. In addition to the usual film festival talks,...
Last year, naturalist Sir David Attenborough got into trouble when he called humans “a plague on the earth.” Apparently, some folks get a bit peeved when you slip ‘plague’ and ‘humans’...
Three weeks ago, over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their secondary school in Borno state by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. The girls were taken at gunpoint and forced into the dark...
