I am very proud of my heritage and it helps me set myself apart from others.

Although many know the enigmatic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late Nigerian Afrobeat maestro, as a talented musician who used his music to speak to issues in the Nigerian social and political realms, but he didn’t start his career as an activist. In fact, Fela started his career singing songs like this:

This rare footage of Fela [...]

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
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