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7 fucked up things
Tweet 1. People that moan about the use of expletives. 2. The combination of capitalism and yoga. I can’t claim to know all there is to yoga but I can say for certain that apart from keeping you...
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7 Thomas Sankara quotes about women
TweetIt’s the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today and in recognition of this dedicated day (and the 16 consecutive international activist days), I am sharing quotes...
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Music and pan-Africanism in the 60s and 70s: 7 hits
TweetIn the 1960s and 1970s when most African countries became independent states, one of the fundamental ultimate goals of rising pan-African ideology was to consolidate aspirations of African unity....
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The Afropolitan year in review and 7 amazing photos from ‘The Rise of...
TweetWhen we look back at Afropolitanism in the future, 2011 will certainly stick out as a landmark year. It was the year the Afropolitan movement reached both virtual and actual spaces that define...
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#OccupyNigeria – 7 essential reads about the protests in Nigeria (with...
TweetWhen it comes to the ongoing protests and the labour strike in Nigeria it isn’t easy to get a clear perspective of the situation without being in the country. There are many articles by...
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7 black male feminist perspectives
TweetThe choice to use the term feminist to describe a significant part of my personality is greatly because, although it’s not a fashionable term, it’s the one that describes the inner revolution...
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7 inspirational African women
TweetThe power of an image became viscerally clear to me recently when I changed my blog profile photo. In the previous one I had this sassy don’t-mess-with-me look, which I do sometimes like to sport...
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7 essential tips for natural hair
TweetWhen I posted an article somewhat up against hair weaves some weeks ago, one of my close friends was in a salon getting a weave. In fact she was reading the post as the hair was getting sewn....
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Key themes of African thinkers x 7. Notes from OpenForum 2012.
TweetWith Blessol Gathoni, Jan Moolman, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Spectra I got back in to London this morning from the YouthSummit and the OpenForum 2012 in Cape Town, a very relevant conference that...
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7 key issues in African feminist thought
Tweet Firstly, it is important to say that when it comes to theory, it’s more accurate to speak of African feminisms than of one almighty African feminism. Not all African feminists agree with each...
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Seven things about gorillas and Africa
Tweet Why write about gorillas and Africa? Because there is an alarm about Gorillas in the midst of Congo conflict /////// One ~ Tourists will generally shy away from unstable regions but this is not...
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7 Ethiopian Women to Watch
Tweet This is a guest blog by Elias Wondimu Ethiopia has a rich tradition of independent, intelligent women. From the Queen of Sheba to wedding gown designer Amsale Aberra, these women have helped...
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A year of African feminism
Tweet I’d like to end the year here with a short recap. I posted 72 blogs in 2012. They featured original content about race relations, pop culture, African affairs and psychology which are four of...
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How to make African pie
Tweet Is Africa hopeless, hopeful, sinking, growing, shrinking or rising? Such preoccupations repeatedly appear in analyses of Africa. Here are, for instance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 articles from The...
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7 ways that Africa is shaping globalisation
Globalisation, the compression of the world through cultural exchanges and innovation, is not a new incident to Africa (nor any other part of the world for that matter). Africa is interwoven in a...
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His idea of beauty: Interview with Terence Nance, director of An...
Are you familiar with semiotext(e), the avant-garde, “punk-rock” publisher that introduced french theory to America? No? Don’t worry, most people probably are not. But they should be. Semiotext(e)...
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7 tips for African women bloggers
This is a follow up to a previous post “Why African women should blog” Happy women’s day! Sticking to my tradition of posting a “Seven” series blog every 8 March, this year I’m dedicating the slot to...
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7 great novels by African women writers
“In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves,” said Michael Martone rightly. We also read ourselves in the books we read, or at least in those books that we cherish. For this reason, one of my...
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Seven things that women want in Africa’s future
This week, more than 3000 delegates are at the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Kigali discussing new strategies to tackle poverty, underdevelopment, and put their weight...
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7 South African rebel women artists – in memory of Miriam Makeba
Today, 4 March, is the birthday of the unforgettable Miriam Makeba. To honour her memory I am posting a selection of my favourite songs by seven sensational South African singers who, like Makeba,...
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