Nnamdi Azikiwe is one of the foremost nationalists in the history of Nigerian politics and had a hand at mentoring Africa’s first post-colonial President, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. After an accomplished academic passage at Harvard in the US...
·about 4 years ago
A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African co...
·7 days ago
Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence in 1957 – the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this feat. He’s still remembered for his unrepentant anti-colonial stance and strident Pan-Africanism. Above all, he is regarded as one ...
·about 4 years ago
A new book on South African liberation struggle icons Nelson and Winnie Mandela is a masterful biography of the pair. It’s a work of scholarship involving an immense body of primary and secondary research, written with flair and panache ...
·about 1 month ago