#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Born in Bonn in 1985, Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann is a Kenyan and German photographer and filmmaker. She is intrigued
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He's always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.
How much longer must we take everything with a pinch of salt or search for ways to laugh through the pain in our hearts? How much of our personal freedom and security do we have to sacrifice?
Historically known for a relaxed pace of life, Mombasa on Kenya’s coast has also been a
Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.
The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?
Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.
"The Samaritans" explores the absurdities of the NGO world. The main characters work for "Aid for Aid," a fictitious NGO that “does nothing.”
After years in South Africa, Ng'ok's work now explores her own relation to places, people and spaces of her native Nairobi.
Please do your research, stretch your tongue, and practice saying Lupita's name. The Kenyan actress, born in Mexico, plans be around at the top for a while.
Mainstream Western media outlets are only now learning to recognize and value diverse and creative African phenomena that have thrived for years.
A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.
Schoonmaker: When did you start to see work by African artists that you did respond to?
What's wrong with the 'Africa' journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Mail."
The photographs of the terror attack at Nairobi's Westgate Mall depict an ordinary day for people at the mall gone terribly wrong.
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
The reactions to the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi makes clear the differentiation between human lives that are worthy of grief, and those that are not.
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.