The Fan-Keenna Film Festival in Hargeisa celebrates Somali storytelling and revitalizes the city’s legacy as a cultural hub. Showcasing local and international films, supporting emerging talent, and highlighting human rights themes, the festival demonstrates the power of cinema as a tool for expression and social change, signaling a hopeful future for Somali cinema.
This article examines how Kenya’s Gen Z–led tech activism has challenged state surveillance, repression, and restrictive cyber laws, highlighting how coders. especially women, use digital tools to defend democracy, amplify civic participation, and resist tech-enabled authoritarianism.
As universities in Khartoum prepare to resume operations, students face profound academic disruption, displacement, and uncertainty. This article argues that the return should not be limited to reopening campuses, but must also address learning gaps. It highlights the importance of flexible academic policies, blended and digital learning, fair admission and assessment systems, and protection for students from unjustified financial burdens, viewing this return as a genuine opportunity to reform higher education in Sudan.
This article documents the Kijana Jitambue Sasa Challenge, a youth-led art and music initiative redefining sexual and reproductive health education in Mwanza, Tanzania. Facing high adolescent pregnancy rates, low HIV-prevention knowledge, and entrenched silence around sexuality, the project paired SRHR education with creative expression. Through boot-camps, original songs, visual art, and community performances, adolescents became trusted messengers within schools, families, and faith spaces.
Thie essay traces a student-led initiative at the University of Khartoum that emerged in 2025 to restore the spirit of education amid destruction. What began as a spontaneous act of care evolved into a collective effort to reclaim the university as a space of knowledge, memory, and hope.