Sokari Ekine

The three year anniversary of the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood gate of new reports, opinions, fact and figures.

In the film ‘Living With Illegals’, Sierra Leonean/British journalist Sorious Samura becomes an illegal immigrant traveling from Morocco to Europe with a group of African migrants.

It is ironic that just over a month ago President Joyce Banda of Malawi made the courageous decision not to invite President Omar Bashir to the AU Summit in Malawi.

DEFINITION OF “GOOD HAIR” - RELAXED AND LOOKS NICE

SOUTH AFRICA: EMANCIPATORY VISION, NOT LEGISLATION

The renewed Sudan uprising whose genesis can be traced back to December 2010 is now nearly two weeks old.

In the early hours of June 9, 2012, a 23-year-old gay man, Thapelo Makhutle was mutilated and murdered in his home in Kuruman, Northern Cape, South Africa. In the same week, on June 4, 36-year-old Neil Daniels’ body was found burned in Cape Town.

In just a few weeks, Malawi’s new president, Joyce Banda, announced she would decriminalise same sex relationships, disposed of the excesses of her predecessor (the $13.3million presidential jet and fleet of 60 Mercedes), embarked on an austerity drive to end a shortage of foreign currency and re

Just two days into the week and Nigeria is facing its third disaster. It started Sunday morning with yet another Boko Haram suicide bomb attack against a church. The numbers killed varies between 12 and 15 and many more injured at the Living Faith Church in Bauchi.

Photo credits to Angry Egyptian