Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe expressed his contempt for the ICC — among other things — in a speech that lasted for over an hour at the African Unity Summit.
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From socially conscious film-making to challenging the invisibility of women in the industry, pioneering Zimbabwean filmmaker and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga speaks with Beti Ellerson about her film activism.
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Kenyan cartoonist “GAMMZ” Ngammau draws attention to president Mugabe’s strategic move to reallocate land among Zimbabweans.
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This week: a Somali rap group performs amid death threats, an Egyptian comedian is arrested, and Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is greeted by protesters.
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To mark IFEX’s International Day to End Impunity, we asked African writers who have contributed to Sampsonia Way to write about the importance of fighting impunity in their home countries.
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This slide show features some of Tony Namate’s editorial cartoons. Namate recently published a book of his cartoons, The Emperor’s New Clods: Political Cartoons from Zimbabwe.
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Editorial cartoonists talk about their careers and challenges. Featuring Tony Namate (Zimbabwe), Alfredo Pong (Cuba), Pedro León Zapata (Venezuela), Aw Pi Kyeh (Burma), Jonathan Shapiro aka Zapiro (South Africa).
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Tendai Frank Tagarira, a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Aarhus, Denmark, commemorated his one-year anniversary as an International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) guest writer with a post he sent to Sampsonia Way.
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In this interview, Tagarira talks to Sampsonia Way about President Robert Mugabe, the different means of illustrating a message, and the psychology of discrimination.
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A Zimbabwean writer exiled in Denmark, Tagarira is a staunch critic of Robert Mugabe. Here are two poems from his book Mugabe Must Go!, a concentrated political attack in the form of 87 succinct poems.
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