Blood Stream at Lekki Toll Gate By Success Akpojotor. Despite bloodshed and violence, young Nigerians speak up. Read More
Untitled by Saddiq Dzukogi. On Malian musician Ballake Sussoko and the kora destroyed by U.S. customs agents. Read More
To A Ugandan Granddaughter By Jane Yolen. Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi is serving an 18-month prison sentence for her vagina-centric political poetry. Read More
How Silently Leaves Fall By Michael Kang'a. For the 21 victims of the Nairobi terrorist attack. Read More
For He is Kind Unto the Evil By J. Todd Hawkins. An American missionary in Uganda has been arrested after a racist assault on hotel workers. Read More
What is Civil in a War? By Success Akpojotor. The Biafran Civil War is far from forgotten. As Nigeria's president tries to reframe history, a state rebels. Read More
He Died On His Horn By E.M. Lyng. The death of the last male northern white rhino highlights a mass extinction crisis. Read More
When I Dreamt of Rain By Christopher Greer. South Africa works to postpone "Day Zero"—the day taps will run dry. Read More