Is satellite TV killing African football?
When satellite television started broadcasting the top leagues of Europe around the world in the mid-1990s, football lovers in Africa [...]
View ArticleInfographic: Johannesburg Things to Know and Places to Go
Ah Jozi, how I remember thee … twas the summer of ’95 and I had jetted in for a youth [...]
View ArticleThe ‘Somali Pirate’ Who Never Was
Somali pirates have kidnapped hundreds of people and cost millions in ransom payments but their infamy has spurned one more twist, one [...]
View ArticlePhiona Mutesi makes the right chess moves
Uganda’s teenage chess champion Phiona Mutesi is so focused on improving her performance that she reportedly replays her moves with [...]
View ArticleNice one, Coca Cola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxeXYas4E4 Cokes’s latest video content piece in Africa is worth a look. While I’m slightly anti-big business, I’m not immune [...]
View ArticleTribe: The Mangbetu – the head elongation fashionistas of Central Africa
There is a tribe deep in the center of Africa that was once famous for its hair styles that defied nature. They practiced [...]
View ArticleWhy your donated clothes could be killing the African fashion industry
You know those clothes you plan to give away to the Salvation Army/Goodwill in the holiday spirit of cleaning out [...]
View ArticleTribe: The Baganda, Uganda’s Royal Kingdom, Past & Present
The 5.5 million Baganda are a Bantu-speaking people (singular Muganda; often referred to simply by the root word and adjective, [...]
View Article25 Things Every African Immigrant Can Relate To
Whether you’re fresh of the boat or a second generation immigrant, if your family is from anywhere in sub-saharan Africa, [...]
View ArticleA Letter from a Kenyan Abroad
Afritorial.com editor’s note: Mkawasi Mcharo Hall’s response (26.08.2013) to Bikozulu’s “A Letter to Kenyans Abroad” (Bikozulu is a home grown Kenyan […]
View ArticleAfrica’s greatest story
Author N.K Read writes about what inspired her new book ‘Children of Saba’, an exciting, epic novel that re-imagines Africa’s […]
View ArticleWhy I’m not a raving fan of ’12 Years a Slave’
So the Oscar buzz is heating up; people are sharing the trailer like mad on Twitter and Facebook, my fellow […]
View ArticleKenyans unite against terrorism: They cannot and will not win
Following a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping centre this weekend, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the country is united […]
View ArticleBlack People with Blue Eyes: Natural Phenomenon or Genetic Mutation?
Frank Sinatra’s were legendary, Paul Newman’s melted a million hearts while Cameron Diaz’s dazzle in modern Hollywood. However, it’s generally […]
View ArticleThe long walk to satisfaction
As a Tanzanian living in the diaspora, I am a champion of almost all things African. I find myself being […]
View ArticleLagos’ Trash Power
LAGOS (Reuters) – One thing Nigeria’s megacity of Lagos, one of the world’s largest, generates in abundance is trash. Now […]
View ArticleMeet the Woman Who Symbolises Africa’s Growing Strength in the War on AIDS
(Image above shows Joyce Dzidzor-Nartey, a 26-year-old singer and “H.I.V. Ambassador,” with her husband and two children. Joyce and her husband […]
View ArticleMerry Christmas Afritorialists!
The sun is shining It’s perfect timing Why? It’s Africa’s Christmas time No snow is falling Yet peace is calling […]
View ArticleHeed the warnings: 20 years later – Rwanda’s lessons for South Sudan
Editor’s note: James Smith is CEO of Aegis Trust and Freddy Mutanguha is Country Director for Aegis in Rwanda, and a survivor of […]
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