Enslaved, mistreated, murdered – fate of African domestic workers abroad
A Ugandan female domestic worker is butchered to death by her ‘master’ in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Serious engagement with the diaspora
With the African diaspora generating over $35bn of remittances annually, it is time to engage with them fully in the development of Africa and for their own enhanced emancipation.
Back to Africa movement gathers pace
Although Ghana officially launched the Return to Africa project last year, the history of Africans in the diaspora returning to the Mother Continent goes back …
The Big Interview with Amma Asante
Ghanaian-born politician, Amma Asante, who became only the second African elected to the Dutch parliament, talks to Femi Akomolafe on immigration, racism in the Netherlands and …
In Africa, do black lives matter?
Alfred Olango’s murder in California was the latest incident in a pattern of violence against Africans that dates back at least to the early 1960s. …
Les Sans Papiers
In France alone, 57,565 illegal migrants were locked up last year. Survivors of a horrifying journey, reminiscent of transatlantic slavery’s Middle Passage, across the central …