The EU subsidies which cause overfishing in West Africa’s waters also drive illegal migration
Hours before sunup every weekday, Adama and his five-man crew roll their pirogues out to sea. The fishermen set sail from Fann Hock, a...
Portland, Maine, Embraces Asylum-Seekers As A Key To Economic Growth
Portland, Maine, is known for its lobster rolls, lighthouses and for being in a state with a coastline longer than California’s. The city...
U.S. WARMLY WELCOMED CONGO’S DISPUTED ELECTION RESULTS — BUT HAS BEEN SANCTIONING ITS ELECTION OFFIC
IN FEBRUARY, THE Democratic Republic of the Congo’s newly elected president, Felix Tshisekedi, held a warm meeting with the U.S. envoy to...
You Could Die!
To the casual passerby, the posse of five might appear to be pelting past on skateboards, but the group’s long, surfboard-like devices on...
The Congolese-American activist who scaled the Statue of Liberty isn’t backing down from taking on T
As a child in the Congo-Brazzaville, Therese Patricia Okoumou loved climbing things, particularly houses. No one else, not even her...
Your favorite wax print wasn’t really African and a Chinese takeover means it never will be
When you think of African fashion, you often think of the variety of brightly dyed fabrics worn on the continent and in the diaspora as...
The hotline trying to stop men murdering their wives
Photo credit: Brittney Walker New York, US - It was an ordinary afternoon when Anthonia Iheme left her work at a nursing home in Hennepin...
Kneel Down…You are a Woman
Still from “Ada Ada” by Flavour The women emerge from the house in pink laces. Their leader, a sprightly 40-year-old crowned with a big...
A Day Without Women: Pushing Past Racism in Feminism
On January 21st, multitudes of women throughout the U.S. protested the presidency of Donald J. Trump. But what started out as a national...
How I learned to love my natural hair miles away from home in Nigeria
Women 'fixing' their hair. (Reuters/Pilar Olivares) I held my breath as the barber took his large scissors to my hair to administer the...
