Posts from Olongo Africa

'Coming 2 America' poses the question: 'If something is good, why ruin it?'

The CBS sitcom rises above its occasional blunder and shows a rudimentary understanding of intersectionality.

Where else is safe in the world?

Home in a wartorn country is ________________

the complexities of black womanhood and the myth of female endurance

When you walk this city, you will always climb

In her feature-length debut, director Ekwa Msangi imagines what many immigrant families spend years dreaming of: they day they are reunited in an airport terminal.

caught between wala's fall and nosi's rebound

My mother said to my brother and me, ‘Ask your father to do a drawing for you.’ ‘A drawing of what?’ One of us asked incredulously. ‘He cannot draw!’

Go ahead, mansplain too.

I am learning to mourn / All the parts that lay hidden / In the whirlwind of my heart

I was looking for a familiar face because I always found one at airports.

Those four lines kicked me in the right spot, while sitting in a quarter-filled coach on the NRC’s diesel fueled new locomotive train heading for Lagos.