Five Nollywood Projects To Watch This April
Nollywood is loading April with new projects that stretch from music‑industry drama to supernatural thrillers.
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The debts our parents left us
The language of fiscal consolidation is meant to sound inevitable. But for Kenya's informal workers, the human cost is anything but abstract. Nairobi City Market, Kenya, August 2025. Image via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. The language of economic policy is designed to obscure. Fiscal consolidatio
AmapianoLand Brings Soweto‑to‑London Energy to Studio 338 This April
Amapiano and Afrobeats day parties have quietly become the heartbeat of diaspora weekends, and AmapianoLand is
Whose progress?
A new documentary reveals how Ethiopia’s manufacturing push redistributes land, labor, and opportunity—delivering gains for some while displacing others. The women workers of a textile factory in Addis Ababa, June 2018. Image credit Pinar Alver via Shutterstock. The global garment industry often shi
Art has never been innocent
Paulo Nazareth's latest show in Berlin follows the cunning architecture of power, from Germany to Brazil and across continents and epochs. Paulo Nazareth, MATA MANIFESTO DE ARTE EM TERRITÓRIO ANCESTRAL, 2025, fine art print on cotton paper, 45 x 60 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. There is somethin
Between fandom and dissent
Eritrea’s recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the country’s political realities. Eritrea players celebrate during their historic aggregate victory over Eswatini to reach the next round of AFC
Who gets to be a civilian?
Often in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities. Darfur, 2007. Image © Kursat Bayhan via Shutterstock.com In one of Sudan’s largest agricultural regions, where vast fields sustain millions of livelihoods, a woman we will call
The making of Arundhati Roy
In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life. 45 RPM single of The Beatles' "Let It Be." Image credit PHLD Luca via Shutterstock.com In Mother Mary Comes To Me we learn that Arundhati Roy, t
Senegal Independence Day: How April 4 Became A Symbol of Freedom
Senegal marks its Independence Day every year on April 4, a date that honors the 1960
ODUMODUBLVCK Starts 2026 Loud and Unbothered on “THEY LOVE ME”
“THEY LOVE ME” is ODUMODUBLVCK’s first release of 2026, and it sounds like him walking