A new exhibit celebrates black artists who use themes of time travel, technology and heroism to convey a broader image of the African experience While Black Panther has engraved its residence in history books as the first major superhero blockbuster with a black administrator and almost entirely black cast, it’s…

Photographer transposed her face over photographs of African girls to draw attention to their plight A Hungarian human rights lawyer and writer who produced a controversial serial of likeness transposing her own face on to those of African dames has been forced to remove her effort after activating widespread anger…

Hungarian artist Boglarka Balogh wanted to raising awareness to African tribal girls “at the brink of extinction.” Her contribution: sharing a tone-deaf prowes activity in which a photograph of her was “morphed” into African wives from various tribes in Ethiopia, Kenya, and in the different regions of the African nations….

Its been short, long, straight-from-the-shoulder and punky manifesting the turns and comes of my life and my homeland, Cameroon In the summer of 2002, I stepped into a hair salon in New Jersey and asked a stylist to cut off all my hair. I was done having fuzz. Enough with…

Booker prize nominee Chigozie Obioma cherishes Lagos, but shares the centuries-old fear that it may curdle. With 2,000 new people arriving every day, the city faces its toughest objection yet There is a saying in Lagos, or a devotion, or perhaps the citys version of God bless America. Eko o…

If you don’t know who Yagazie Emezi is, it’s time to catch up — she’s on the verge of blowing up. The social media hotshot is attaining it her personal mission to change the course people think about modern Africa. But perhaps what’s so interesting about Emezi is that her…

In a situation where womens people are heavily patrolled and Emma Watson is under fire over her Vanity Fair cover, a pole on Instagram is deeply political I was blissfully unaware of the Emma Watson polemic that predominated the word on Monday. While the actor protected her pick to see…

Using computer models, ecologists think they have finally hit upon the reason for the strange polkadot patches scattered across the Namib desert The marks on the ground in the Namib desert resemble a vast sheet of polka dots, or to the less romantic observer, perhaps a bad case of chickenpox….