Articles by Sokari Ekine
Haiti and the white saviour industrial complex
Sokari Ekine’s concern at Haitians’ dependence on outside help is alleviated when she meets a local doctor taking a stand.
Africa: trapped in water privatization
Water privatization and exploitation in Africa in the name of 'development' has disastrous consequences for the continent's population, writes Sokari Ekine.
Migritude
A review of Migritude, a book by Shailja Patel, described as ‘poetry as documentary, non-fiction as testimony’.
African Revolutionaries: remembering Maurice Bishop and Thomas Sankara
‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.’ Thomas Sankara
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink!
After months of money-collecting and humanitarian relief, the people
made desperate by the January earthquake in Haiti have not seen a single
cent. What happened to all the donations?Banish the flip-flop!
Plastic shoes are lethal for those making them as well as for those wearing them, and even after theyve been discarded.
Voyeurism and exploitation
Human rights violations are taking place in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean under the guise of tourism.
Ingenuity, innovation and invention
Africans are leading the way in the business of recycling, says Sokari Ekine
What does it mean to be an African lesbian?
In her many works, South African photo activist Zanele Mutholi explores the meaning of being a same-gender-loving woman in Africa.
