Between the hardships of fleeing their country and new social fabrics with the absence of grandmothers and husbands, doors are opening for mothers to decide against the genital cutting of their daughters.
Getting signed to Mass Appeal is only the beginning for the Moroccan powerhouse.
In May, music releases were less energetic and more introspective, powerful in their minimalism, and stepping stones towards bigger releases and projects awaiting us in the summer.
From BLM to Pan-Africanism to international solidarity, the movement’s afterlives continue to echo across the diaspora five years after its rise and fall.
For Africa Day, OkayAfrica explores a collaboration between filmmakers, and the National Geographic Society; a rekindling of the connection Africans have with the continent, its surrounding oceans, and each other.
Taking an experimental approach, the ‘Khartoum’ co-director returns to the experience and repercussions of the ongoing war in Sudan.
Libya has nearly 100,000 registered migrants and asylum seekers, but no mechanisms to welcome and support them. Tariq Lamloum tells OkayAfrica about his fight for migrants’ rights and what that means for his own life.
After Ward’s Henna Party and I Promise You Paradise, the director closes his trilogy of inspecting Egyptian society through the eyes of Sudanese migrants.
Disclaimer: You might not be able to read this article without running to your local Egyptian restaurant immediately after.
The 23-track, deeply personal album confronts the death of the rapper’s mother, embedding the experience of depression and loss in an Egyptian cultural context.
Online, people express their outrage over the court’s decision to throw out the case and, thus, close another pathway that could have helped Sudan out of its current hell.
Ahead of the official opening of the world’s biggest archeological museum complex dedicated to one civilization, Ibrahim Morgan tells OkayAfrica about the wonders awaiting the world in Giza’s Grand Egyptian Museum.
The celebration, which dates back to 2700 BC, carries a stench of tradition and communal celebration.
In 2011, South Sudanese overwhelmingly voted in favor of seceding from Sudan. OkayAfrica looks back at the journey to independence, and the years, and wars, since.
In her new podcast, the Sudanese American radio journalist shares the stories she grew up hearing in Sudan with a global audience.
Determined to finally end the war after two devastating years, Sudanese American activist Bayadir Mohamed-Osman has declared April 2025 to be Sudan Action Month. Here is how you can get involved.
In 2011, Tunisia ushered the world into a new era of digital activism, referred to as the Arab Spring, creating a blueprint for protest movements in Egypt, Libya, Sudan, South Africa, Nigeria, and most recently, Kenya.
This month’s guide introduces Ramadan’s hit shows and eases you into the summer season with Egyptian and Moroccan comedies.
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