Sara Coulibaly grew up playing with light-skinned dolls, and even as an adult, the idea of still seeing such dolls on shelves in Ivory Coast was unsettling to her, especially when Black people are claiming their roots now more than ever.
Kenya battling with Chinese prostitutes, arrests 15 at brothel
The Kenyan government has launched a war against Chinese nationals engaging in businesses reserved for locals. The recent crackdown was at a brothel in the capital Nairobi where 15 Chinese nationals were arrested.
Five things to know about Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration
22-year-old Amanda Gorman is now the youngest poet to recite her original poem at a presidential inauguration and the sixth poet to perform at an inauguration following in the footsteps of other great poets like Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.
How the 36 states of Nigeria got their names
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and where one can find more Black people than in any other country on the planet, has a uniquely complicated colonial history.
Do you know what North Africans looked like before Islam and Arabs invaded?
There has been a fierce debate over the Africanness of Maghrebian North Africans as well as Libyans and Egyptians, for close to a century. One of the key drivers of this debate is their appearance.
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