Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu

That Moment.

I dream of it every night.

President John Magufuli of Tanzania recently made known his stand on the proposition by civil society groups in the country for the enactment of laws that will enable unwed pregnant teenage girls to return back to school.

Resurrection serves a purpose of generating widespread attention for ideas propagated by the forgotten, and that seems to be what Adé Olufeko set out to achieve with his digital painting of one of Africa’s intellectual saviors, Cheikh Anta Diop.

Mama held on to her daughter. Tears ran down her cheeks and her chin before forming a small puddle on her daughter’s shoulder. Tears trickled down her daughter’s back when Mama lifted her up her feet, set her down, disengaged her tight hold and stared into her face.