From Washington's Structural Adjustment Programs to a Nairobi courtroom — and a June 25 ruling that shielded the IMF even as it kept the case alive — a decades-long battle to make global lenders answer for their choices is entering a new, decisive phase. The post IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural
22. That is the number of debut authors Masobe Books is pushing out this year. And some of their work is already out, from Chinasa Anaele’s Three Is a Crowd and Deborah Kira’s The Finest Things to Kulthum Asha’s Heart Analytics, alongside upcoming books like Love to Time by Jules R. Otoibiri. Masobe
The old culture of Shared Eating in the North In the North, the meal is never lonely, For food is born to gather souls. A single round tray rests at the center, And from it, many hands find unity. Rice, tuwo, or hearty soups Rest like a shared promise Between strangers and kin alike. […]
Old Nollywood was built by women whose performances gave the industry its emotional force, glamour and
The Swamp Dwellers, the rarely staged 1958 play by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, is returning to British soil for the first time in over fifty years. Written when Soyinka was just 24, a year after graduating from the University of Leeds, the one-act play last appeared on a UK stage in 1975, at the Af
Netflix’s The Polygamist is the kind of series that knows exactly how to hook people:
Four African teams have already punched their tickets to the Round of 32 at the 2026
Kenyan filmmaker Likarion Wainaina is back with a new psychological thriller, and this time he’s
In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad. The post Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound appeared first on This is Africa.
At Brittle Paper, this June, we are highlighting some of our favourite African queer books that have rocked and shaped African publishing. In Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde resuscitates her signature style, blurring the lines between myth and reality to reimagine queer urban existence, showing