Arts + Culture
22 February 2024
Reverse Migration: Why North African Creatives are Returning Home
A new generation of émigrés and diaspora children is escaping Western individualism and building communities in their homelands.
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News
22 May 2023
U.K. Announces Restrictions on Bringing Family Members to Join Foreign Students
In what seems like a shocking immigration crackdown, the United Kingdom is set to announce new immigration restrictions on foreign students, banning them from bringing family over to Britain.
News
18 August 2022
How “Japa” Became the Nigerian Buzzword for Emigration
"Japa" is Yoruba for “to run, flee, or escape.” The word takes firm root in the aspiration that young Nigerians have to leave the country for good.
Arts + Culture
12 July 2022
How Nigerian Artist Layo Bright Uses Glass to Explore Migration
In the turbulent world of migration, Layo Bright’s sculptures creates spaces for African narratives
News
05 December 2019
Croatian Authorities are Under Fire for Wrongly Deporting Two Nigerian Students to Bosnia
The students and table tennis players were in Croatia for a tournament when they were picked up by police and sent to a refugee camp in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Global
22 October 2019
6 Things We Learned About African Migration to Europe in 2019 From a New UN Report
UNDP representatives presented their "Scaling Fences: Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe" report last night at Okay Space. Here's what we found out.
Popular
08 March 2018
For These Gambian Girls, Following Their Football Dreams Is a Matter of Life and Death
After their teammate died on her way to follow her football dreams in Europe, these Gambian girls are still pushing to practice their sport.
News
29 January 2016
Ikiré Jones’ Stunning New Fashion Editorial Tackles Perceptions Of African Men In Europe
Check out Ikire Jones' Fall 2016 collection as modeled by African asylum seekers in Florence.
Arts + Culture
04 August 2014
Invisible Borders Talk Road Tripping From Lagos To Sarajevo
Invisible Borders participants talk their first transcontinental road trip from Lagos to Sarajevo plus migration in an Okayafrica interview.
News
17 February 2013
Poet Inua Ellams Returns to Nigeria For the First Time in 16 Years
Just before the British Council's 2013 Lagos Theatre Festival, Inua Ellams talks to us about African poetry, Nigerian theater, the Lagos literary scene, and migration stories
News
23 January 2013
9-Year-Old Responds to Germany's Row Over Racist Slurs in Children's Books
Nine Year old Afro-German Ishema Kane wants racist words like 'Neger' to be removed from children's books and tells highbrow newspaper Die Zeit: "I find it totally shit that this word should remain in children’s books if it were up to you"
Film + TV
21 November 2012
Our Picks For The 2012 NY African Diaspora Film Festival
Our pick of five must-see films at the 2012 New York African Diaspora Film Festival (ADIFF).
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