Tendai MWARI! Makorokoto egore idzva! Afenhyia pa! Odun de! Happy New Year As we bid farewell to the Kwanzaa season 2023-4, we feature an exlusive interview with Baba Kwame Steve Cobb and Mama Chavunduka Sevanhu who created the pre-emient Kwanzaa suite Seven Principles thirty years ago. In the sleeve notes…

The 57th Kwanzaa season begins tomorrow and Afrikans around the world will be synchronised in observance of this Pan-Afrikan celebration of family, community and culture. For new celebrants we offer a quick guide to some of the Kwanzaa practices Starting on December 26, the day of Umoja (Unity) greet everyone…

The season of Kwanzaa, the seven-day Pan-Afrikan celebration of family, community and culture from 26th December to 1st January, is upon us again, seeking to put the constraints of lockdown and online events behind us. Kwanzaa was forged by Dr Maulana Karenga of the Us organisation in 1966 in the…

The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak is fighting for his political life with his flagship policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda hanging in the balance. (1) The five-year plan hatched by former Home Secretary but one Priti Patel in 2022 to send some refugees to the east Afrikan state…

After the seven-day pause that saw 110 Hamas hostages and 180 detained by Israel released, military operations have resumed in Gaza (although arguably they never stopped in the West Bank). (1) However, the ideological hostilties have never ceased and have done nothing if not amplified the propaganda value of Afrikan…