Africa

Biography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau

Dambisa Moyo is a well renowned global economist. Born in Zambia she was exposed to the harsh economic realities that Af...

Biography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey

Nawal el-Saadawi has been creative her entire life. As a young girl, she imagined becoming a singer or a dancer. Her dre...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist approach, she is ...

Rootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler

“The truth is revealed in people’s eyes. Words have so little value. You need to get under people’s skins. See what is i...

Biography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty

Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portug...

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa January 8 statement speech

The Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo

Micere Githae Mugo is an internationally known world speaker recognized for her literary works, essays and writings whic...

Capa letter to Omar Badsha

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Letter from Francis Wilson to Alex Harris, 1986

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Alex Harris Letter to Editor New York Times

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Omar Badsha letter to Anne Hoy

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Omar Badsha Letter to Minister Botha, 5 May 1986

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Talk by Alex Harris at the Symposium held in New York as part of the exhibition South African The Cordoned Heart

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Biography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge

Flora Nwapa - remembered today as Africa’s “literary foremother” - was born on [1]January 13, 1931 in Oguta, located in...

A History of Zonnebloem College 1858 TO 1870 - A Study of Church and Society by Janet K.H. Hodgson

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