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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Volleyball star Paola Egonu represented Italy at the just-ended Paris Olympics after she quit the women’s national team two years ago because of the racial abuse she was receiving on social media. ...
Hollywood writer and producer Tyler Perry has taken a leading role in seeking justice for the death of Josiah Robinson, a 24-year-old gay man found dead on BBC Beach in St. George, Grenada, where he had...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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