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Tsitsi Dangarembga: The Booker Prize nominee striving to depict real life and fight for change

African fiction is very popular at the moment because there are a great deal of stories African novelists are yet…

Akorfa Searyoh Akorfa Searyoh

Namibia marks colonial genocide for first time with memorial day

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of…

Natasha Booty Natasha Booty

Survivors of South Africa’s horrific building fire now live in fear of guns

Blackened by soot, the gutted and derelict remains of South Africa's infamous Usindiso building in central Johannesburg are an unintentional…

Mayeni Jones Mayeni Jones