What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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What shall it profit a people to lack shame? What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]
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My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
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Aanu Adeoye is a journalist at a major newspaper and author working on his debut nonfiction book about Africa’s emerging geopolitics. Here, he takes us through his use of the internet as both a tool for work and a distraction to be avoided. Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What a […]
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Freedom of choice is the ability to make decisions without being forced or unduly pressured by others.
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What would be an ordinary street on an ordinary road in Ibadan is much more than that. Behind one of the many wooden stalls lined up at the side of the road is a bare land transformed into the studio of Adewale Kolawole John, a young artist whose works have crossed the continent’s shores and […]
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In the early twentieth century, the Nigerian film industry was in its embryonic stage of development. Colonial filmmakers in existence at the time released films such as Palaver (1926) and Sanders of the River (1935) which were shot in Nigeria and featured Nigerian actors in narratives that belittled the African country and promoted the imperialist […]
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By Nolina Minj The village of Galkuva lies deep in the heart of southern Gujarat, in the Tapi district. On July 16, light droplets of rain pattered down as we made our way to a spacious mud house amidst fields of freshly sown paddy and verdant sugarcane. On the porch, young children sat on […]
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By Alia Chebbab Sex education is still a widely controversial topic: while some people believe it’s essential to teach young people about sex and sexuality in schools, others argue that it’s inappropriate and should be left to parents to discuss with their children. Having “the talk” can be uncomfortable and embarrassing, and it becomes […]
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By Marta Borraz When it seemed that gender violence did not exist for most of society or that it was a matter of “passionate anger,” Ana Orantes put a face, voice, and words to it. The abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband, this woman born in Granada, in the south of Spain, […]
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By Eva Marabotto Agustín Teglia, a sociologist by profession, learned to play chess as a child, encouraged by his mother. He recalls having a board in the living room where he played with his brother and cousin. Years later, when he started working in literacy programs, he began organizing workshops in vulnerable Buenos Aires […]
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By Abubakar Muktar Abba In 2016, when the terrorist organization Boko Haram seized control of Abadam, a local government area in Borno State, North East Nigeria, Aisha’s family fled, leaving behind their livestock, farmland, and more. The Fulani family sought refuge in Maiduguri, the state’s capital. They found shelter at the Shuwari II for Internally […]
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Text and photos by Brooke Anderson On a cold winter morning deep in the woods of Cazadero, California, Nikola Alexandre adds gasoline to a red Predator 2000 generator, flips on the engine’s switch, and pulls the recoil cord. The generator sputters briefly, then steadily starts to hum. Members of the Shelterwood Collective, an Indigenous-, Black-, […]
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