Miracle Rising: Duration 1 hr 32 mins - This is the epic story of the end of apartheid in South Africa and the country's transition to a new democracy. The film focuses on the four years between the prison release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the historic elections of 1994. During this somewhat troubling [...]

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Trevor Noah, the famous South African comedian is in New York showcasing his new show "Born a Crime" in New York until June 8. He performed a five-minute routine o the David Letterman show which was well-received by the live audience in New York. Noah's show, That's Racist, touches on road tolls and shark attacks [...]

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This a Part 2 of the review of Xala by Paul Schloss of  Serenity Science. This piece is a work of criticism  based on an impressionistic reading of the Senegalese film - Xala which in the Wolof language means "temporary sexual impotence".   The (male) elite need the idea of an African culture to give them legitimacy, [...]

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Review by: Paul Schloss - who is described affectionately as a "professional amateur". Paul Schloss writes about history, literature, film, art and politics at Serenity Science. This piece is a work of criticism  based on an impressionistic reading of the Senegalese film Xala, which in the Wolof language means "temporary sexual impotence".   Brothers and sisters, [...]

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The TIME 100 issue represents TIME magazine's choices for the 100 most influential people in the world. It's their 10th year of doing this list. Last year's list included Egypt's Fatima Ibrahim, Nigeria's Goodluck Johnson and Gambia's Fatou Banda as the only Africans on the list. This year sees Nigeria's Omotoloa Jalade-Ekeinde, Egypt's Bassem Youssef [...]

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  Massachussetts state police have just posted this alternative picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomb suspect who is still on the run.

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Could this be an alternative to Esoko? Apparently this is a more community driven platform that facilitates trade without the "inconvenience" of having to deal with middlemen. The note below explains the concept, which sounds great in theory by the way. Our website - Agroam , wants to help farmers market their products as efficiently as possible [...]

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We are a big fan of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman Nobel Peace Prize winner simply becouse she is a heroic figure whose memory should be chrished and nurtured for posterity to draw inspiration from. Click here to see -  The Full List (including biographies) of African Born Nobel Prize Winners On what would have [...]

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Interesting take on how the adornments of colonialism has become the uniform of the Nazareth Baptist Church, a church founded in 1910 in South Africa by Isaiah Shembe and mixes Zulu tradition and Christianity. The 4 million strong church according to wiki "bans smoking, drinking, and fornicating and reveres Shembe as an African Messiah and emphasizes [...]

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Kenyan artist and TEDGlobal fellow, Cyrus Kabiru talked about his C-Stunners work - wearable eyewear sculptures made from found materials in Nairobi to CNN this week. MyWeku first met up and interviewed Cyrus Kabiru in 2010 when his art was mainly only recognised locally. . In MyWeku's piece with Cyrus Kabiru he stated to us that he likes [...]

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