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Clarksville, TN - The 2024 APSU World Film Festival is set to kick off on February 13th, 2023, promising an enriching cinematic journey through the lens

Earlier this week the Namibian Supreme Court ruled that the government’s refusal to recognise the validity of same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia for the purpose of immigration law infringes the interrelated rights to dignity and equality guaranteed in the Namibian Constitution. While...

Namibias Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government must recognise the unions of same-sex couples who married in countries where it was legal for them to do so, even though same-sex marriage remains illegal in Namibia itself...

AuthorTalks:AfricaisnotacountrySeptember20,2022 |Interview...

An interview with Dipo Faloyin, debut author of Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. In the book, Faloyin explores the youth-led cultural and political movements that are defining and reimagining Africa on their own terms.Program note: This is the second half of a two-part interview.

Booklist Online Book Review: Top of the List: 2022. FEATURE. First published December 1, 2022 (Booklist). Adult Books

Dipo Faloyin is tired of Western stereotypes.

cohort of the Ninja Accelerator program in Kenya. The NINJA Accelerator in Kenya is JICA’s first acceleration program in Africa and aims at empowering Kenya’s high-growth post-revenue ventures with strategic partnerships, mentorships, and access to investments for enhanced business growth and continued social development in the country. Growth Africa indicated that out of 178 applicants, Kwara was one of the five startups selected to partake in the first-ever JICA Ninja Accelerator. The acc...

‘Amandla’ review: Blood, tears and music of the struggle 29 Jan 2021 The Amandla Cultural Ensemble’s 1982 LP, recorded and published in the Soviet Union, electrified the anti-apartheid movement (Melodiya Russian Imp) Out of the crucible. Warrior army of a new age. Despising gas, batons, bullets. Defying centuries of slavery. Advancing without care on armoured cars. Striking metal with clenched fists. Warrior cry, “Amandla” rising in every throat.  So begins this, in many ways, extra...

By Tobe Okafor* As you might have guessed, Boxing Day is not eponymous, deriving its name from the duelling sport. Neither does it have its origins in putting used wrapping paper into boxes, or with boxing up undesirable presents, or indeed with shopping or going on forced outings or any of the other activities that now characterise the day after Christmas. The origins of Boxing Day lie not in sport or peddling, but in small acts of kindness. It is generally accepted that the name derives from ...