Not a lot of people know Eritrea. Firstly, Eritrea is a mountainous country with some spectacular roads. Secondly, it has a rich cycling tradition that is undiscovered. However, every month as many as 5,000 people leave because of the authoritarian regime known for human rights violations. There are no mobile Continue Reading
Healess Wound by Sabukie Osabutey: Poetry Anthology review
This is a collection of dancing words from a courageous heart experienced in striving both in and out of love. For this heart, the earth is love and everything speaks of it. Everything reeks of love in all its forms; self, kindness, kin-ness, unrequited, intimate, and random. If you have Continue Reading
The Importance of Capturing Memory and Photographing Everything About Your Personal Experiences: By Justin Mitchell
While travel will always be the preferred way to delve into a new culture, photography is another passport to people doing nothing but living. Photography serves our love for discovering new cultures which commonly precedes our desire to travel. The stimulating fascination with other people, their living conditions, neighbourhoods and Continue Reading
What Everyday Life means, and The Challenges of Photo Documentary: By Kigozi Alvin
What is Documentary photography if not a broad form of fine art photography that can be fleshed out in diverse ways. It is closely related to street photography and photojournalism, but not really. One is focused on shedding light on a compound social issue and the other doesn’t. Let’s say Continue Reading
A Template for Detoxification and other Poems: by Nanya Kooper
A Template for Detoxification Wake up. Or don’t. If dreaming is what you need, please see to it that it is done. If reality is where you want to be, see to it that you are awake. Let your feet touch the cold floor. A second sign you are alive. Continue Reading
Introduction to Identity During The Pandemic
Identity During the Pandemic is an upcoming anthology of African stories that introduces new works by new writers you might have enjoyed previously. In it are some of the most versatile and fascinating Ghanaian and Nigerian writers working hard at their little corners to improve their craft. With an intimate Continue Reading
Smoky: By Oghenenyerhovwo Sagbodje
Bread and butter. That was what James ate the day he killed another human being for the first time. The only time actually, since that was also the last time. Like all murders, this one also had a reason for happening; a book. That evening he stopped by his grandmother’s Continue Reading
When Communities Get Together – Solving A Water Crisis: Kavita Ndolo
Much of Africa has already warmed by more than 1 °C, being the most reason for the very hot days. The subject of Climate Change is a priority today and we are at a defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten progressive agriculture to rising sea levels that increase Continue Reading
A Passport to People doing nothing but living: with Pascal Mrema
Photography lets you find yourself and is a passport to people, places and possibilities. Random Photo Journal is fascinated by everyday culture, from how people look to their personalities, individual character traits and, in this interview, we spoke to Pascal Mrema, a street photographer based in Mombasa, Kenya about his Continue Reading
IDENTITY DURING THE PANDEMIC PRINT ANTHOLOGY – CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
THIS CALL IS CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS. We’re what Time makes us. Our decisions are reactions to the perpetual progression of events. Our milieu is our mold, and milieus are a construction of Time and inter-generational reactions. We like to think that we’re taking actions (which are really just reactions to Continue Reading