"The film moves between personal memory and historical reckoning, asking how lives shaped by political struggle are remembered and who gets to do the remembering." theconversation.com/south-africa...

The levels of subterfuge involved in attempts to sabotage Gabrielle Goliath's work hints at the expansive nature of contemporary warfare - where borders are made conveniently permeable if and when a powerful state suppresses dissent @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/gabrielle-go...

"This matters because being represented is not only about being visible. It’s also about producing audiences. More than depicting queer lives, films like Rafiki shape new viewing communities and new forms of recognition." theconversation.com/rafiki-unban...

"The business model that made street food work in Mombasa’s economy also brought these vendors into regular conflict with the city’s administration." theconversation.com/street-food-...

"My study found that night running as understood in modern times is a duality: the ritual of persons running naked at night and causing havoc, and a symbol of navigating the nocturnal city against the grain." theconversation.com/kenyas-night...

"Apongo’s story offers an opportunity to better understand the complexities of west African identity and to put a more human face on those enslaved." theconversation.com/apongo-was-a...

"Many VJs are celebrities in Uganda and possess loyal fans who regularly turn out to watch them perform. In fact, the VJ is often more of a draw for audiences than the film they are voicing over." theconversation.com/inside-ugand...

"For over a decade now, Falz has been marrying musical skills and social activism with digital savvy and comedy." theconversation.com/revolutionar...

The impact of labour migration on women in Botswana - when men return home. "From what they told me, it became apparent that most marriages did not work out for the best." theconversation.com/marriage-and...

"The increasing ability of regimes to narrowly target shutdowns on specific areas is of great concern as it allows the state to punish opposition areas while privileging others." theconversation.com/internet-shu...

"Throughout history, valley communities have often been loosely organised around spirit shrines with mediums. These are very influential in providing stability and direction for people’s lives." theconversation.com/the-history-...

"The influence of African consumers on global markets is far from a new thing. In the 1800s, the continent’s consumer demand called the tune for European factories." theconversation.com/early-shoppe...

"He held on to his mission of 'taking the old and mixing it with the new. We’re not destroying the music: we’re giving it a way to live on.' Through his recordings, it will." #RIPPopsMohamed theconversation.com/pops-mohamed...

It was a foregone conclusion that Let My People Go would be banned and Luthuli knew it was unlikely to enlighten apartheid rulers. Nonetheless, the narrator insists that: "If the whites are ignorant of the realities, the fault does not lie with us." theconversation.com/who-was-albe...

"Debates about whether Christianity has been good or bad for Africa, and Nigeria in particular, can probably never be settled, because so much depends on context and perspective. Nigeria’s writers offer just that." theconversation.com/god-in-niger...

"In South Africa, for example, Facebook, YouTube and X users still pay more attention to traditional news media and journalists than news creators and influencers. But traditional media are now overshadowed by creators on Instagram (59%) and TikTok (52%)." theconversation.com/news-influen...

"If there’s no space for the kraal other than near the toilet, people can’t go to the toilet freely. The kraal is a sacred space and non-family members or new brides are not allowed in it. This makes toilets in the middle of the backyard a real problem." theconversation.com/no-space-for...

"We found that migrant men tend to experience stress in the form of pressure and migrant women in the form of tiredness." theconversation.com/high-rise-li...

"As Africa transforms its history into diplomacy, its diplomacy runs the risk of being less about genuine reuniting and more about using identity as a marketing strategy – selling the idea of 'returning home' to improve an African nation’s global image." theconversation.com/ciaras-benin...

"For many South Africans, religion or spirituality is something they lean on to navigate the struggles they face in one of the most unequal societies in the world." theconversation.com/south-africa...

I spoke with Kojo Baffoe about three decades of arts journalism, the power of stories, new media, poetic earworms and how you never make the journey you think you're making. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrjO...

"Recent studies highlight what most African city dwellers already know: walking is the main way of getting around, and essential for daily life. This is true for people who live in low-income neighbourhoods across the world." theconversation.com/we-studied-t...

"Skit-making is estimated to be Nigeria’s third largest entertainment industry sector, with a net worth of over US$31 million." theconversation.com/the-comedy-e...

"What the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Series tells us: that African poetry is thriving, diverse and globally mobile. What it does not tell us: how poets working entirely from the continent might imagine and enact African poetics differently." theconversation.com/african-poet...

"This proposed route is counter to the current belief among most scientists that the Out-of-Africa migration began in eastern Africa and not southern Africa." theconversation.com/where-did-th...

"Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing." theconversation.com/south-africa...

"Tango dancers showed brains that appeared more than seven years younger than their chronological age. Musicians and visual artists had brains about five to six years younger. Gamers, about four years younger." theconversation.com/creativity-i...

"In what sense does a person belong to a place, or a place to a person? Does one carry belonging with one, or is it something one leaves behind when one moves?" #RIPZoëWicomb theconversation.com/zoe-wicomb-t...

"When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product, and AI cannot be safe, useful or fair for them." theconversation.com/african-lang...

"Participants in my marital rape research expressed how police sometimes mock wives seeking help. They believe it’s not possible for a husband to rape a wife." theconversation.com/rape-within-...

"Those still alive to remember get fewer." theconversation.com/windhoeks-ol...

"The Caine Prize made a decision early on to accept entries from internet publications. This proved prescient. Online platforms have inspired a boom in short stories. The art form has links with age-old traditions of storytelling in Africa." theconversation.com/noviolet-bul...

"Any argument that surnames underpin bloodlines, identity and leadership succession should recognise that marital surnames are a colonial import." theconversation.com/south-africa...

"People say their prayers with words, and I’m saying my prayers with a painting." theconversation.com/zimbabwean-a...

"These women’s high-risk journeys struck me as being characteristic of what journalist and scholar Mahvish Ahmad describes as a musāfir: an activist-traveller in a politically hostile environment who breaks new ground for others so they may be free." theconversation.com/travel-as-ac...

"As South Africa moves towards a national AI strategy, the focus must be on broadening access to reliable information on AI, not just through schools, but also for older generations and others who feel left out of the discourse." theconversation.com/one-in-three....

"The maulidi festival became a medium for social reform, a symbol of change." theconversation.com/muslim-ritua...

"South Africans’ deep collective investment in the power of the occult masks other, more pressing realities. They offer easy explanations that defer the real causes, and the real responsibilities, for the crime, violence and insecurity that plague daily life." theconversation.com/satanic-pani...

"His photographs offer complexity, dignity and humanity in a world that often seems to lack it." theconversation.com/nigerian-pho...

"The question I ask in my study is what might help Black women with disabilities to be empowered to dismantle ableist microaggressions. The answer lies in the past." theconversation.com/what-is-able....

"Evangelical filmmakers simply retooled the formula, swapping out witchdoctors for pastors, charms for prayer, and gods for Christ." theconversation.com/god-and-noll....

"Her crime? Seeking a traditional Akan remedy for a simple cat bite." theconversation.com/monicas-stor...

The end of colonisation did not dismantle the BBC’s operation – the style was already embedded in the broadcasting system. theconversation.com/bbc-has-a-lo...

"Filmmakers were very optimistic about technology, but deeply sceptical of what existing platforms could do for them." theconversation.com/ghanas-films...

"Despite facing challenges like high unemployment and limited resources, many participants expressed pride in their ability to care for others. They saw responsibility as a source of meaning." theconversation.com/what-does-it...

"It allows English readers to encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms, idioms, and sensibilities of African languages. It helps counter the erasure of African languages in world literature." theconversation.com/african-nove...

"His story highlights how Africans in the post-independence period have shaped institutions in important ways, often without getting enough credit for their work." theconversation.com/lesothos-his...

"The Christian Council of Kenya was not a very powerful organisation until the 1950s. This all changed with the Mau Mau emergency ... an opportunity to evangelise and win converts ... In the process, it became part of the colonial system of violence." theconversation.com/christians-a...

"French colonial authorities tolerated commercial sex because brothel keepers denied African male clients access. This helped prevent interracial sex. Sex with a white sex worker was preferrable to sexual or conjugal relationships developing with African women." theconversation.com/sex-workers-...