The award-winning series, Intersexions, is back for a second season. Intersexions comprises of 26 independent but interrelated episodes “that examine how that which remains unsaid in love, relationships and sex may place us at greatest risk of HIV infection.” The concept is similar to that of Love Games Zambia and Shuga (Kenya) and it has [...]
Although we hear positive news about the decreases in new HIV infections across the continent, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is still a very real issue. For years we have all been spreading awareness: what is HIV, how is it contracted, who is most vulnerable, how can you live with it — these are all questions that [...]
Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, J. Nozipo Maraire evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, Zenzele tells the tales [...]
Kenyan author, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o describes this book as “a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature.” A critical look at the state of African languages and the lasting effects of [...]
image courtesy of AfriPOP Mag. Lebogang Masango, a student and writer, says it’s time for Africans to revel in the continent’s beauty instead of accepting the negative views about it. When you no longer hate who you are And the circumstances that brought you here Undress yourself Reclaim your weathered body without fear Stand naked [...]
In 2009, MTV created Shuga, an educational drama, as a part of it’s Staying Alive campaign with UNICEF and UN AIDS on the list of partners. MTV describes the show which is set in Nairobi, Kenya as, “a hard-hitting drama that follows the lives, loves and ambitions of a group of young people whose bright [...]