Saturday 13 June 2026
أفريقيا
Cinema
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The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
Books
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In his latest work, Theft, Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah turns a false accusation into a powerful story about identity and injustice. Set between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, the novel reveals how history shapes even the most ordinary lives.…
In his latest work, Theft, Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah turns a false accusation into a powerful story about identity and injustice. Set between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, the novel reveals how history shapes even the most ordinary lives.…
Culture
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Before African salsa filled dance floors around the world, a Malian musician helped invent its sound in Havana. The life of Boncana Maïga reveals how a Cold War-era journey changed the course of West African music.…
Before African salsa filled dance floors around the world, a Malian musician helped invent its sound in Havana. The life of Boncana Maïga reveals how a Cold War-era journey changed the course of West African music.…
Opinion
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The International community (IC) and African Union (AU) have spent a fortune and tremendous military resources in Somalia since 2006 to fight Al Shabaab. But their strategy has failed because it betrayed the interest of the Somali people.
The making of the catastrophe
Somalia’s civil war led to…
The International community (IC) and African Union (AU) have spent a fortune and tremendous military resources in Somalia since 2006 to fight Al Shabaab. But their strategy has failed because it betrayed the interest of the Somali people.
The making of the catastrophe
Somalia’s civil war led to…
Culture
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African writers are moving beyond the defensive posture of postcolonial discourse. Their work negotiates identity, recognition, and literary authority within an increasingly global cultural economy.…
African writers are moving beyond the defensive posture of postcolonial discourse. Their work negotiates identity, recognition, and literary authority within an increasingly global cultural economy.…
Culture
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Born in voice and memory, oral stories once shaped how the world was understood and lived. On the page, they return to those meanings, not to fix them, but to question and rethink them.…
Born in voice and memory, oral stories once shaped how the world was understood and lived. On the page, they return to those meanings, not to fix them, but to question and rethink them.…
Analysis
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A war that appears distant from African capitals quickly ripples across the continent.
From the Atlantic to the Red Sea, trade routes, energy markets, and fragile economies stand exposed to its shockwaves.…
A war that appears distant from African capitals quickly ripples across the continent.
From the Atlantic to the Red Sea, trade routes, energy markets, and fragile economies stand exposed to its shockwaves.…
Analysis
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Behind the language of rescue, a transnational adoption industry has turned African children into commodities, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and lifelong displacement.…
Behind the language of rescue, a transnational adoption industry has turned African children into commodities, exposing them to trafficking, abuse, and lifelong displacement.…
Opinion
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Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Culture
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Meja Mwangi wrote from the margins, giving voice to urban poverty, disillusionment, and post-independence Kenya without courting fame. His death invites a reckoning with how Africa remembers its writers and how many are only truly seen after they are gone.…
Meja Mwangi wrote from the margins, giving voice to urban poverty, disillusionment, and post-independence Kenya without courting fame. His death invites a reckoning with how Africa remembers its writers and how many are only truly seen after they are gone.…
