Deyanira Nevárez Martínez – Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University In cities across the U.S., the housing crisis has reached a breaking point. Rents are skyrocketing, homelessness …
What’s the story about? Dream Count tells the intersecting stories of four African women. The novel recounts the characters’ hopes, dreams and struggles, interweaving flashbacks from their childhood and earlier …
It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and …
A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The study, the largest of its kind, recruited 7,500 men from eastern, …
Baobab trees grow in arid and semi-arid parts of Africa, and have deep cultural and ecological significance. Some of these trees are thousands of years old. Global demand for baobab …
Written by Maria Yetano Roche and Temilade Sesan Four in every five people in Africa cook using wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels in open fires or inefficient stoves. This releases …
Farah Nibbs – Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape …
Written by Lisa D. Tinsley As the golden hour descended upon Atlanta on a beautful spring evening, the National Black Arts Festival’s (NBAF) 18th Annual Fine Art + Fashion …
Sisanda Nkoala, Associate professor, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, Senior lecturer in Philosophy and Media Studies, …
Sisanda Nkoala – Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa Blessing Makwambeni – Senior Lecturer in Communication Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Trust Matsilele – Lecturer in Journalism, Cape Peninsula …