I am threads woven together. Specifically, threads from cotton crops grown on West African soil, spun, in the past, by the spindly hands of grandmothers. Men wove those threads on looms that required ...

Yarri Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-Ugandan writer, translator and policy researcher who has lived and travelled extensively in the Sahel. She has been awarded several translation grants and was a finali...

An essay by Yarri Kamara

Adichie has moved countless readers with her novels about Nigerians at home and abroad. After the death in Lagos of her toddler son, her homeland no longer feels as much like home.

Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most imaginative, is often ...

For International Literacy Day, Poda-Poda Stories interviewed Ama King, the founder of Sierra Learners and Congo Town Community Library in Freetown. King spoke about the importance of early childhood...

C'est une première dans l'histoire financière du Burkina Faso. Ce jeudi 3 septembre 2026, à Abidjan, le Trésor public burkinabè a fait sonner la cloche de la Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (B...

World Editions has just launched a new series, Read the World A to Z, with books from Argentina, Belgium and China. From World Editions: Read the World A to Z invites readers to travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia. Published by the award-winning press World Editions, the collectible Read the World series features translated novels from A to Z—one country for every letter of the…

Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Triomf is a curious South African drama centered on a poor, white Afrikaans family at the turning point

YouTube video by African Film Festival, Inc.

As democracies around the world confront public dissatisfaction, Bhutan reminds us that the health of a democracy cannot be measured only through the ballot box.  It must also be evaluated through the...

YouTube video by Film Movement

When a crisis erupts, it sets crisis-management reflexes in motion and prompts efforts to contain its effects. Analysts then begin looking for the malfunctions, oversights, and failures that caused it...

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology

Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.