Learning to love the kinks and coils in a Black girl’s natural hair, is a coming of age story rarely featured in Hollywood - and possessing that love and acceptance from the get-go, even less so. In this story, 4c hair is larger than life, wild and untameable. It makes the Black girl exposed and open to bullying. Straight and blonde hair that flows past the shoulders is beautiful. She sees this everywhere and so she hides her own.

The Music Video Origins of Wanlov the Kubolor Wanlov the Kubolor is a vagabond. A disruptive force in the Ghanaian Afro-pop scene through his tongue-in-cheek lyrics and provocative music videos. The Ghanaian-Romanian musician, filmmaker, cultural icon and social commentator does not “make music videos that fade[s] away”. And he has produced several iconic music videos such as ‘My Toto’ and ‘Coz of Moni’, which expose the contradictions of hypersexuality, Ghana’s treatment of the LGBTQ+ communit

The film historian Manthia Diawara, highlights that the West African Film market is a “complex site of resistance where the collective unconscious is shaped through traditional schemes of globalisation that the bureaucratic state cannot effectively police.”

In 1954, the Embobut forest in Eastern Kenya was registered as a protected public forest. This land is the ancestral home of the Sengwer tribe of hunter-gatherers. The right of the Indigenous Sengwer community to dwell in the forest is recognised in the Kenyan Constitution which states that “ancestral lands and lands traditionally occupied by hunter-gatherer communities” are community lands. However, since 2009 the Sengwer tribe has been systematically targeted and violently evicted from Embobu

Students holding a banner reading “Free LSE rerum cognoscere causas” outside St Clement’s Building / Photography via the Beaver, 1966 Universities are intense hotbeds of activism. Students have time, energy, and are often undergoing their first major political awakenings as adults. Last year saw high profile anti-racist action take place at academic institutions across the country. First, there was the Goldsmiths Anti-Racist Action (GARA) in March 2019, led by students of colour. They succes

In the latter half of 2018, a fish poisoning scandal caught the attention of the Ghanaian media and subsequently had a detrimental effect on the sales and consumption of tilapia in Accra. There had been rumours fuelled in part by over-embellished news reports of chemically poisoned tilapia from the Eastern and Volta region, which is one of the main sources of fish to the capital city. While this is an inherent structural problem within the Ghanaian aquaculture industry, the response of the Ghana

John Mearsheimer is an American International relations scholar, most notable for his theory of offensive neorealism. He is currently promoting his new book ‘The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International realities’.