Queen Sono will gain attention for being Netflix’s first African original series. It deserves attention for breaking barriers in Netflix’s programming examining everything from Black female independence to the impact of white colonialism on Africa.
No light reading this week. The Isles, Canada, Mideast, Asia, Africa, Latin America - and a call for eco-socialism
In recent months, the Horn of Africa has been invaded by desert locusts that have consumed food crops and pasture. For Kenya, it is the worst infestation in 70 years.
Parnas Implicates Trump & Co. in Ukraine Crimes, and He Has Receipts. Sam Cooke | A Change Is Gonna Come. Why Australia's Fires Are Linked to Floods in Africa. Just Mercy | Movie. Debunking Anti-Vaxxers.
Fires are normal in Australia. This year was off the charts.
Reviewing a volume that amply clarifies the legacy of martyred Pan African historian and militant Walter Rodney, the Guyanese intellectual who emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution.
The World Between Crises and Protests, Africa's pressure points, news from India, France, Iran and Iraq, and more
Africa 2019: a year of revolutions, internet shutdowns, massive tree planting; a year of migration, feminist uprisings, and jailed journalists; of cyclones, climate change, and opposition rising, a year of cultural icons dying, illness, and cures.
An exhibition of Cuban propaganda posters and magazines in London shows the support Fidel Castro gave to African liberation movements during the Cold War. The works were produced by 33 designers, many of them women.
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from... Europe itself. Those leaving war zones—Syria and Afghanistan in West Asia... also Eritrea and Libya—come in expected numbers fleeing bombs that are often produced in Europe.
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