Black Mom Creates Brand and Children’s Book to Highlight Premature Babies After Having Her Baby 4 Months Early
When Shanel Hudson went in for a routine ultrasound at 24 weeks in 2018, she never imagined that a few days later, she’d be having her baby almost 4 months…
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana,…
Author Releases Thrilling Illustrated Children’s Book, ”Auntie I Don’t Want You to Get Married”
Nationwide — Author Clarence Coggins delights young children in his new story entitled Auntie I Don’t Want You To Get Married: Danielle The Girl From NY which features passion, desire,…
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Ella and Kevin are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might alter the world. Ella has a Thing. She sees…
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste Make 2020 Booker Prize Longlist
Zimbabwean literary giant Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ethiopian-born Maaza Mengiste appear in the latest Booker Prize longlist. Zimbabe’s Tsitsi Dangarembga has once again gained international prominence through her third novel This Mournable Body. The announcement of the annually…
Fascinating art. Traditional wall painting by South African women
The origins of African art lie long before recorded history. Ndebele Women Painting Traditional Designs on Walls. The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe…
An Artist’s Angst: Using fan art for Honor and Release
Art-Alchemy is the technique of using traditional art methods to transform an individual into another figure. When a digital painting depicts someone as a known superhero, the art becomes fan-art….
Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC
n the 1970s, a Congolese painter named Tshibumba Kanda Matulu began to paint a history of what was then Zaire. This history, as the anthropologist Johannes Fabian pointed out when…
Given by Nandi Taylor
As a princess of the Yirba, Yenni is all-but-engaged to the prince of a neighboring tribe. She knows it’s her duty to ensure peace for her people, but as her…
Miraduoro da Lua (Viewpoint of the Moon) – Angola
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone…
Africa’s Business Revolution:How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market
For global and Africa-based companies looking to access new growth markets, Africa offers exciting opportunities to build large, profitable businesses. Its population is young, fast-growing, and increasingly urbanized—while rapid technology…
Thabisa Mjo, a creative entrepreneur telling stories through design
Thabisa Mjo is the founder and owner of Mash. T Design Studio in South Africa, a furniture and design studio with the main focus and philosophy to tell uniquely South…
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
What happens when life as you know it begins to crumble underneath you? “Black Sunday,” follows a pair of twin sisters in Lagos, Nigeria whose lives are upended when their…
Lake Natron – Tanzania
Situated in Arusha Region of Tanzania, the lake is in Africa’s Great Rift Valley is one of the most caustic lakes in the world. The lake gets its reddish hue…
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this…