Kaleidoscope Beauty, a U.K.-based African jewelry brand, launches a new collection

Kaleidoscope Beauty takes its roots and inspiration in African culture and traditions. The sophisticated brand is the brain child of a creative entrepreneur, Umutoni Thuku-Benzinge, from Kenya. After spending several … Read More

Sudanese Canadian writer Amr Muneer Dahab’s brave move to denounce the ‘supremacy’ of the novel

BY PETER SESAY Sudanese Canadian poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab recently stunned the publishing world with his new book in Arabic translated into English under the title: “Damn the … Read More

Trump shamefully rolls back Michelle Obama’s much-praised school lunch program

BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a fundamentally racist man. The facts speak for themselves and there is no need to list them here, other than … Read More

Three reasons why we are addicted to smartphones

BY JACO J. HAMMAN Two years ago, Apple launched its iPhone 8 and iPhone X, which came with sleek, new features. Apple also hopes to start a new community around the … Read More

“The Advocacy,” a fictional story set in Ghana, by Melissa Fischer

Drawing from her own experience as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer in this book weaves a rich tale set in 1992 in Obuasi, a mining boomtown. … Read More

Amr Muneer Dahab: The impressive journey of an engineer who juggles professional career and creative writing

BY USMAN MAMA Regardless of the artistic form, artistic talents are usually born in the artist at an early age. Amr Muneer Dahab, a Sudanese-born essayist, literary critic and poet, … Read More

Sudanese poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab’s cry against the dominance of the novel as a writing genre

BY LOU SIFA In a series of forty-five short essays that constitute his latest book with the English translation titled “Damn the Novel: When a Privileged Genre Prevails Over All … Read More

Toby Green wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

  ‘A Fistful Of Shells: West Africa From The Rise Of The Slave Trade To The Age Of Revolution’, by Toby Green, has been awarded the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for … Read More

Are religious people more moral?

  BY DIMITRIS XYGALATAS Why do people distrust atheists? A recent study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, … Read More