The Camões Prize is the most important award for Portuguese literature, and Paulina Chiziane is the first African woman to receive it.
New directors will coordinate campaigns for fair global trade, climate justice, borderless movement, political inclusion and other Pan-African commons.
A scholar of politics and religion explains how anti-LGBTQ laws are being used to distract the public from governance failures in many parts of the world.
Novelist Petina Gappah’s call for translators on Facebook has resulted in the publication of Chimurenga Chemhuka.
Outspoken, astute and sometimes controversial, he transcended the role of talk radio host to become a public intellectual.