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A year after SA launched plan to combat xenophobia, foreigners still ‘live in constant fear’

Africans and other foreign nationals in South Africa suffer “routine” harassment and lethal violence by locals and government authorities, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. In the 64-page...

Burna Boy to donate his earnings to victims after starring in anti-xenophobia concert in South Africa

Nigerian Afrobeats musician, Burna Boy, has pledged part of his earnings from a concert to be held in Capetown, South Africa to the victims of xenophobic attacks that rocked the country a few months ago....

Xenophobia in South Africa: A vision Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah warned Africa about in the 1960s [Read]

Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, warned as far back as the 1960s that African states attaining independence from European colonial oppressors had to be guarded as political independence without...

Julius Malema blames whites for ongoing xenophobia against African migrants in South Africa [Video]

In the wake of the ongoing xenophobic attacks against black African immigrants in South Africa which has so far resulted in 5 casualties and dozens of injuries, Julius Malema has suggested that people’s...

African communities in Australia face growing tensions over race, prejudice and xenophobia

There is very little news about Africans in Australia in the international media so it is easy to assume that there are either no Africans in Australia or that the experience of Africans there must be...

Xenophobia: Nigerian Immigrant Killed in Italy

Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, a Nigerian immigrant in Italy, died on Wednesday from injuries he sustained when a local Italian native attacked him in Fermo, a town in central Italy. The Guardian reports that...

‘Go to Africa’: How Ukrainian who won his country’s only Tokyo gold medal was ‘racially abused’

A Ukrainian wrestler who won his country’s only gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics said he was racially abused in the street after returning from the games. 30-year-old Zhan Beleniuk won the Greco-Roman...

She was told she wouldn’t survive 3 days, now she’s a disability influencer and mom of 3 changing lives

A person with a disability might use their condition as an excuse to miss out on life but Talisha Grzyb still chose life when all the odds were stacked against her from birth. Even though doctors told...

COVID-19 pandemic, racist attacks and Africa!!!

The world will not be the same when the dust settles after the COVID-19 pandemic. Projections for a post-COVID-19 world are already underway.  Will it be an era of new global power configurations? How...

South Africa’s new land bill to expropriate land without compensation

Land expropriation without compensation has been the fulcrum around which South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters drive its support. For years, its leader, Julius Malema, has been calling for the retrieval...

‘Racist’ ad by South African drug retailer triggers protests as stores are damaged

A shampoo advertisement shared on the website of South African drug retail giant Clicks Group on Friday drew the ire of locals who deemed it “racist”, triggering protests in the country. The protests...

Raphael Armattoe, Ghana’s 1949 Nobel Peace Prize nominee whose disease cure guide saved millions

Dr. Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe died relatively young at 40. Despite his quick exit, he still left behind a commendable body of work. He was a Ghanaian medical doctor, author and politician and trained...

South Africa limits most coronavirus testing for people under 55

Testing for coronavirus in South Africa will now be largely focused on citizens under 55 amid crises of a shortage of testing kits as well as a backlog of more than 100,000 tests. Various reports from...

VW pulls racist ad from social media after backlash

German carmaker Volkswagen has had to pull a racially-insensitive promotional video from Instagram earlier on Thursday, but not before it had sparked concern and spread on other social media platforms....

Ousmane Sembène, the stowaway who became the ‘father of African film’

Ousmane Sembène was born in 1923 in Casamance, a region in modern Senegal. The son of a fisherman, Sembène’s transition from the banks of the Gambia to the docks in Marseille, France was saturated...

What greats like Malcom X, MLK, Nkrumah and Azikiwe thought of Garvey

Bigger, faster and stronger animals intimidate and dominate the not so fortunate ones. However, being witty and clever can postpone death another day in the jungle of life. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., the...

How Lincoln University molded Nkrumah and Azikiwe to become African presidents

Lincoln University; oldest historically Black college boasts alumni Nkrumah and Azikiwe as African presidents Some in the African-American community argue that Black people’s greatest advancements occurred...

Burna Boy makes Michelle Obama’s workout playlist for 2020

The New Year couldn’t have started any better for Nigerian artiste, Burna Boy, as former U.S. First Lady, Michelle Obama lists his ‘My Money, My Baby’ as one of her favourite songs for workout...

Burna Boy’s ‘Collateral Damage’ is one of Jay-Z’s favorite songs for 2019

Nigeria’s Burna Boy made it into Jay-Z’s 2019 ‘Year-End Picks’ playlist. The playlist, uploaded exclusively on TIDAL, features his song, Collateral Damage. With the year coming to an end, award-winning...

Five violent tensions between African countries that show why Pan-Africanism is a difficult goal

The most extreme naysayers believe the political and philosophical goal of Pan-Africanism was doomed from birth. The argument goes that for a continent whose people’s modern sense of identity is...