Mahlasela delved into poetry and songwriting as a teen, eventually joining youth organizations protesting South Africa's separatist, white government. Reading poems at night vigils, funerals and anti-Apartheid marches triggered a long streak of police harassment. His poems and songs were routinely c [Read More]
The average university students in Africa will wait to graduate before they seek to exercise the power of knowledge to impact their communities. Not so for a Sierra Leone born Sylvester John, who in May 2000, as an undergraduate student in the University of North Florida (U.S.A) helped establish a [Read More]
Today, Emeka runs two blogs: Timbuktu Chronicles which aggregates some of the most interesting and exciting models of entrepreneurship happening in Sub-Saharan Africa and Africa Unchained that allows Emeka to "think out loud" about paradigms of development, innovation and politics. [Read More]
Tu Nokwe’s passion and love for children and community is the driving force for her music. This has seen her Album, African Child win ‘Best release from Africa’ on the British world music magazine [Read More]