This week, editor Natalia Molebatsi introduces a stunning collection of Black women’s poetry brought out by the Nigerian-based publisher. Twice a month, we bring you an excerpt from a book to be ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

A very powerful poem that reflects how our forefathers sold Africa to colonialism Father Africa! At a token ignorance, You have given your inheritance: To strangers you gave so much.White fellows who ...

‘Gbenga Adeoba was born and raised in Akure, Nigeria. In an interview, he said, “About a decade before I was born, a traveling neighbor left his stacks of books with my father but never came back to ...

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