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….