Pour une version en Français, cliquer ici For more details, go to the Wikithon Cameroon event page on Wikipedia here. The Goethe-Institut Kamerun will be hosting an edit-a-thon on Saturday, July 2015 which will focus on “places” and “spaces” in Cameroon. Given that Cameroon is a bilingual Country, the main languages spoken during the
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Amatesiro Dore Amatesiro Dore assesses Adewale Maja-Pearce’s memoir in an unorthodox review, which matches the nature of the book in question, as he highlights Maja-Pearce’s history as the troublemaker of African literature. The House My Father Built, Adewale Maja-Pearce, Farafina Kamsi, Lagos, 2014 Reading a slush pile of submissions is the worst task
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Dzekashu MacViban Though its death toll is dropping, Malaria still remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases, responsible for 500,000 deaths in 2013, which is smaller than the recorded statistics for 2010, which stood at 655,000, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Malaria is a preventable and treatable blood disease caused by
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Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Every moment chooses its music. Or maybe it’s the reverse, the music chooses its moment? Anyway, days after Oba Akiolu of Lagos issued a threat targeting Igbos, you could listen to Olamide of Akiolu’s own ethnicity on a joint album with Phyno from the targeted tribe. How is that for subversion? For those
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Oris Aigbokhaevbolo Oris Aigbokhaevbolo investigates the politics of inclusion (and exclusion) of African movies at The Berlin Film Festival, highlighting Nollywood’s commercial approach to film-making and the problems it poses. The opening sentence of an article in a recent edition of The Hollywood Reporter reads, “This could be the year that films with African-American themes
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Dzekashu MacViban Ibeyi; Feb 17, 2015. XL Recordings. When I first watched the unsettling video for “River” by Ibeyi ( [pronounced ee-bey-ee] made up of Cuban-born, Paris-based twin sisters, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz), on Okayafrica, I was first confused, then amazed, by not only the concept of the video, but the song itself. How
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A few months ago we featured an excerpt of Awes A. Osman’s novel, Skinless Goat in Somalia, as part of #100daysofafricanreads. The book was inspired by Awes Osman’s student days in India and focuses on the story of an Indian girl, and a Somali boy; the repercussions of their romance and the Somali and Indian
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A journey through central London by tube, full of flashbacks and loss, as well as the shadow of Lagos, and a meditation on relationships with strangers.
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In the second part of an on-going project on The Simpsons, we asked bloggers, writers, cultural thinkers and academics to comment on the episode “The Princess Guide” [s26 e15]. Below is a selection of the comments, with an introduction by Dzekashu MacViban.
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Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed explores the presence of nameless narrators in African Fiction, highlighting some of the most memorable nameless characters as they explore colonial and postcolonial rule, immigrant experience and love.
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