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Art & Culture

December 1, 2025November 30, 2025
Art & Culture

Tutankhamun was decapitated 100 years ago – why the excavation is a great shame instead of a triumph

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun’s mummified remains. What followed wasn’t scientific triumph – it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute force, Howard Carter’s team decapitated the pharaoh, severed his limbs and dismembered his torso. Then they covered it up.

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November 15, 2025November 14, 2025
Art & Culture

How to Talk With (to) Someone Who Has Cancer

Talking to someone with cancer is an exercise in presence, honesty and restraint and not grand speeches, dramatic optimism or rushed solutions. One simply tries to show up with humanizing words, and sometimes, with none at all.

Omondi Ochukaby Omondi Ochuka
Art & Culture Book Reviews & Literary Criticism

Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia: I write for the heart and soul our society

“When I write, I write what is in my heart. Because I live in this country. The things that I see happening and those issues that affect me like a Kenyan and an African.”

by Barack Oduor November 14, 2025November 14, 2025
Art & Culture Music & Film

Transforming a little-known Kenyan town into Africa’s film capital

While most film executives chase deals in big cities, film enthusiast Peter Pages Bwire is betting on the Kenyan countryside. Through Kitale Film Week and the Kitale Film Institute, he’s building a model where creative industries drive urban transformation and power a grassroots movement for African storytelling and education.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - November 8, 2025November 3, 2025
Art & Culture

More African countries are embracing the yuan

Ethiopia and Kenya may become Africa’s first countries to repay Chinese loans in Beijing’s currency. It’s the latest in a wider de-dollarization trend that is sweeping across the continent.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - November 6, 2025November 3, 2025
Art & Culture

Donald Trump Is Erasing Black History, But Blood Cotton Clothing Won’t Let Him

The Whipped P exhibit was created to educate people of all cultures and backgrounds. More importantly, it was designed to help bridge the gap between Africans and African Americans.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - November 5, 2025November 3, 2025
Art & Culture

Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how

One way to understand the concept of digital authoritarianism is as a form of governance or set of actions aimed at undermining accountability. It is the use of digital technologies for this goal. Technology is used to repress voices, keep people under surveillance, and manipulate populations for regime goals and survival.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - November 2, 2025October 31, 2025
Art & Culture Book Reviews & Literary Criticism

From Grant Zero to Hero: Rethinking Funding Readiness for African Nonprofits

That vantage point taught me a difficult truth: many nonprofits fail to secure funding not because their missions lack value, but because they are not fund-ready. They often struggle with systems, structures, and clarity, the very things that give funders confidence.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - September 29, 2025September 29, 2025
Art & Culture

Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera turns her prayers into paintings

When most artists are grappling with history and archives, Zvavahera is focused on the dreams and visions she has, not as a retreat from the past or the urgency of the now, but as a parallel form of knowledge.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - September 21, 2025September 20, 2025
Art & Culture

Nigerian photographer Michael Oyinbokure challenges stereotypes about migrants

His art photography presents what immigrants bring with them, their resilience, inventiveness, and enduring connection to their homelands.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - September 20, 2025September 20, 2025
African Cultural Knowledge

Mónica’s story: the woman shipped from Ghana to Portugal in 1556 to stand trial for using traditional medicine

Standing before the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal in 1556, Mónica Fernandes, a woman from the coast of modern-day Ghana, was accused of casting malevolent spells and making pacts with demons. Her crime? Seeking a traditional Akan remedy for a simple cat bite.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - September 16, 2025September 15, 2025
African Cultural Knowledge

Satanic panic: 5 ‘occult’ crimes that gripped South Africa’s imagination

My new book "The Devil Made Me Do It" shows how beliefs in the danger of the occult perform a social function across race and class. In the book I discuss numerous cases of so-called occult crime over the years and across communities.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - September 15, 2025September 15, 2025
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