Africa is a Country

Artículos

• When Dreams Die, they Do not Rot–Three men, One Dream and The Theatre

  23 de julio, puesto en línea por Chika Unigwe
  I remember the Iranian-Dutch writer, Kader Abdolah, once saying that when he first mentioned to a fellow Iranian immigrant that he wanted to be a writer in the Netherlands, his countryman told him, “Your dream is large but this country is small.” A Nigerian would have told him to “cut your coat (...)

• Is there such a category as a Biafran immigrant?

  21 de julio, puesto en línea por Shobana Shankar
  The New York Theatre Workshop recently staged a successful run of two plays, “Sojourners” and “Her Portmanteau,” which are two parts in a cycle of nine installments in the “Ufot Family Cycle,” by Nigerian-American storyteller Mfoniso Udofia. These two productions introduced us to Ukpong and Abasiama, (...)

• My favorite images: Magee McIlvaine

  20 de julio, puesto en línea por Magee McIlvaine
  My photographic work is and always has been deeply personal to me. The majority of my childhood was spent in Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I grew to be comfortable with being marked as different, whether in Lusaka or in Washington D.C., and found hip hop as a (...)

• Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to U.S. for-profits?

  19 de julio, puesto en línea por Mary Mulbah
  When Liberia’s Minister of Education, George Werner, announced last spring that he was inviting foreign education companies and non-profits to run our public schools, our country came under the international spotlight, both in Western media and for education activists. The Minister and the (...)

• What’s missing from feminist readings of Nollywood romantic comedy ‘Isoken’

  19 de julio, puesto en línea por Kayode Faniyi
  You are bound to be inundated by all manner of readings of “Isoken,” Jadesola Osiberu’s new Nollywood rom-com, the majority of them feminist. Those readings will recapitulate society’s pressure on single women. They will critique the near-universal acceptance in Africa of marriage as the crowning (...)

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