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Being Black and female

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean playwright, filmmaker and award-winning novelist who is vocal about freedom of expression and human rights. In 2020, she was convicted by a Zimbabwean court for inciting violence after carrying out a march calling for political reforms. The charge was later …

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ARTS: The politics of black hair

When girls’ hair was cut to reduce their desirability to men Kampala, Uganda | KATHOMI GATWIRI | When I was growing up in a village in Kenya, we kept our hair short. Sometimes my grandmother cut it with scissors, other times with a razor blade. “It’s manageable when it’s short,” my …

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