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09 September 2020
Rwandan TikToker Drags American Influencer Charly Jordan About COVID Claims
Zuba Mutesi took to TikTok to correct Charly Jordan's claims about testing positive for coronavirus while visiting Rwanda.
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18 June 2020
Celebrity Status Meets Ignorance: Tyrese Gibson Angers South Africans With Social Media Post
Tyrese Gibson's recent Instagram post about "white slavery" shows the dangers of perpetuating false narratives about Black people—especially in a country that is not your own.
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28 May 2020
Op-Ed: Opening South Africa's Churches Amid COVID-19 Will Result in More Deaths
Churches get away with a lot in this country and now is as good a time as any to put an end to that.
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12 May 2020
Madagascar's President Insists 'COVID-Organics' Tonic is Legitimate Treatment for Coronavirus
However, the World Health Organisation maintains that proper clinical trials should be carried out before the tonic can be hailed as a safe and legitimate treatment for COVID-19.
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07 May 2020
Former Congolese Football Player Hiannick Kamba Alive After Being Presumed Dead For Years
In a bizarre turn of events, the former football player who was declared dead in 2016 following an alleged car accident, is alive and well in Germany.
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24 April 2020
Kenyans Slam BBC Over Controversial COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Comments
The BBC has come under fire after one of their medical correspondents suggested that trials for the COVID-19 vaccine be carried out in Kenya should they fail in the UK.
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03 April 2020
French Doctors Cause Outrage After Suggesting COVID-19 Vaccine Be Tested on Africans
A discussion about holding coronavirus vaccine trials on Africans from a French television show has been labeled racist and colonial by critics including Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o.
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17 February 2020
Former South African President Infuriates South Africans With Comments on Apartheid
Former President F.W. de Klerk claims that 'Apartheid was not a crime against humanity'.
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14 February 2020
Ethiopians React to Passing of Controversial ‘Hate Speech’ Law
Many are concerned that the new law is the government's attempt to suppress freedom of speech instead.
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13 December 2018
A Controversy Followed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Abantu Book Fest—How Did it Turn Out?
Attendees of the book festival had mixed reactions to her interview with Prof. Pumla Gqola.
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21 June 2018
Censored For Supporting Palestinian Rights, 'Young Fathers' Now Invited Back to German Music Festival
The band was disinvited from the Ruhrtriennale festival after refusing to distance themselves from the "boycott, divestment and sanctions" movement, or BDS.
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04 April 2018
I Have a Problem With Big Narstie's Big Black Clown Routine
Unpacking stereotypes with the most embarrassing man in Grime
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