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​​Amaliah, October 2023

Muslim Women in Film Series: Amina Koroma

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​Pin Africa, September 2023

Maria Bradford’s New Cookbook, Sweet Salone, Celebrates Sierra Leone’s Food Heritage

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OkayAfrica, August 2023

The Black Americans Finding Home in Sierra Leone

 

The New Arab, August 2023

Fuji: The infectious devotional music of Nigeria's Yoruba Muslims

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Black Ballad, August 2023

How Black Creatives Around The UK Are Responding To The Climate Emergency

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The Daily Dot, July 2023

Abdul-Rauf, Kaepernick and the Politics of Black Athletic Protest Traditions

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OkayAfrica, June 2023

Afrobeats star Fuse ODG launches the School of New Africa

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Amaka Studio, June 2023

Under the Kundè Tree A Moving Cameroonian Tale of Love and War

 

Amaka Studio, May 2023

Sierra Leone's symbolic Cotton Tree destroyed in rainstorm

 

The New Arab, March 2023

A Safari Ramadan: A reappraisal of dhikr, culture and climate justice

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The New Arab, February 2023

Black Foam elevates the complexities of migration, racism and Ethiopian Jewry

 

Amaliah, February 2023

How a Muslim Artist Used Abstract Art to Illustrate the Soul

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Medium, February 2023

Before Colin, there was Mahmoud

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Black Ballad, January 2023

A trip to Sarajevo reawakened a painful truth about my Sierra Leonean heritage

 

Middle East Eye, December 2022

Hawsawi: Uncovering the history of Saudi Arabia’s Afro-Arab Hausa community

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Refinery 29 UK October 2022

Wait, Were The 90s Hair Relaxer Girls Natural All Along?

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Middle East Eye, September 2022

Hanan Issa: The Welsh National Poet on her mission to elevate 'difficult women'

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The New Arab, September 2022

Shining a spotlight on East Africa's distinctive Islamic manuscript culture

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Medium, August 2022

Six things you must know about Colombia’s first Afro-descendant vice-president

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Middle East Eye, May 2022

Omar: The opera that tells the story of an enslaved Islamic scholar

 

The Voice Newspaper, March 2022

Whatever you think about Will Smith’s slap, black women deserve to be protected

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Amaka Studio, March 2022

How the Collective of Black Iranians is Amplifying Afro-Iranian Voices

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TRT World, March 2022

Trapped in Ukraine: African governments failed us yet again

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The Gumbo, February 2022

On the Roots and Rhymes of Black Muslim Women in Hip-Hop

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The New Arab, February 2022

Diasporic deliverance: Black Arab pioneers you should know and celebrate

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Medium, February 2022

Taking Sierra Leonean Football Forward After AFCON 2021

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Gal-Dem, February 2022

'Modest fashion’ only works in a world where Muslim women aren’t criminalised for it

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The New Arab, December 2021

Netflix's Amina: African blockbuster captures majesty of Muslim Queen-to-be

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Amaka Studio, November 2021 

The African Women Ecopreneurs You Should Know (Part 2)

 

Amaka Studio, November 2021 

The African Women Ecopreneurs You Should Know (Part 1)

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The New Arab, October 2021 

The Malcolm Code: Fighting discrimination at UK ISOCs

 

Amaka Studio, October 2021

Black, Turk and Ottoman: Challenging Popular Notions of  “Diaspora”

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Amaka Studio, September 2021

The New Black British Muslim Renaissance

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Gal-Dem, September 2021 

Allah, Asè and Afros: Black Muslim Women on hair

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Amaka Studio, September 2021 

The Importance of Haiti Within African Diaspora Histories

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Middle East Eye, August 2021

From Harlem to Brixton: The extraordinary lives of Black Muslim women

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Amaka Studio, July 2021

Celebrating Pan-African Women's Day: 12 Black and Pan-African Women Who Changed the World Through Activism 

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Amaka Studio, April 2021

The Mission to Free Freetown: An Interview With Sierra Leone’s Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

 

Amaka Studio, March 2021

The past, present and future of Bogolan - Mali's cloth of the soil

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TRT World, March 2021

Black Iranian heritage: Emerging from the shadows

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​Amaka Studio, March 2021 

This Women’s History Museum Is Boldly Championing the Contributions of Zambian Women 

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TRT World, February 2021 

Q&A: The Ertegun Brothers, the Sultans of Jazz

 

TRT World, January 2021 

Decolonising the culinary legacy of West African food, one recipe at a time

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TRT World, October 2020

Festival to celebrate Black Muslim identity begins
 

Black Ballad, August 2020

100 years on: Is the Pan-African flag still relevant?

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Afropean, July 2020

Behind Somalia's Architectural Renaissance I 

 

Black Ballad, May 2020, 

What It's Like Celebrating Ramadan As A Black British Woman In A Muslim Country

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Black Ballad, November 2019, 

How The BlackPoppyRose Project Is Remembering Our Black Veterans

 

Amaliah, March 2019

Jinn: An Ode to Black Muslim Women

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The New Arab, June 2018

Dear France, not all migrants can be 'Spiderman'

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The New Arab, April 2018

Reflections on Winnie Mandela's Relationship with Palestinians

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SISTERS Magazine, November 2017

She Got Game

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The New Arab, October 2017

Somali's 9/11, where's the outrage?

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Al Jazeera, October 2017

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Feminist icon or femocrat?

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The New Arab, June 2017

 This Refugee Week, we need to welcome and celebrate the refugees, not turn them away

 

The New Arab, June 2017

Humble beginnings, extraordinary life: What Muhammad Ali taught us

 

Al Jazeera, June 2017

Remembering the great Muhammad Ali as a Black Muslim

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Al Jazeera, May 2017

When basketball does hijab because it can

 

The New Arab, April 2017

 Will Egypt - Sudan relations be restored?

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Blasting News, April 2017

'Does this week mark the final countdown to Zuma's presidency?

 

Huffington Post, December 2016

When Muslim women are lyrically speaking

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The New Arab, December 2016

'Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement 

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Huffington Post, September 2016

 Are Black Muslim Women Part of the Natural Hair Conversation?

 

Huffington Post, July 2015

 Darfur: An Invisible Conflict

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Huffington Post, July 2015

 In the shadow of 7/7

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Huffington Post, December 2014

 When Ebola Hits Home

 

SISTERS Magazine, October 2013

 With Love from Timbuktu

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SISTERS Magazine, November 2012

 Hajj: Lasting Impressions 

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