Alexis Okeowo

The Nigerian President claims to have “technically” defeated Boko Haram, but attacks on towns and refugee camps continue, and most of the girls remain missing.

For one thing, many of the show’s photographers have hyphenated identities—born in one country, living and working in another. The photos of Atong Atem, a South Sudanese artist living in Melbourne, Australia, for instance, are fantastical explosions of prints and hues, modern and traditional, a vision of East meets West. One image shows a young woman with bright-red lipstick in a yellow-print dress, holding purple and white flowers, with a chunky red-and-green necklace. She poses placidly in fro…

What redeemed the show—which was created by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, based on the British series “Criminal Justice”—was Ahmed’s magnificent performance, and the disturbing, and convincing, coming of age his character underwent during his time behind bars. At Rikers, Naz, a “good boy” from a middle-class Pakistani family, suddenly enters a world of casual beatings and knifings, rape, and drug smuggling. Groomed by a nurturing and manipulative inmate named Freddy (Michael K. Williams), h…

Why is the Nigerian government preventing a group of girls freed by Boko Haram from returning to their village and families?

Scott-Young’s shows have a paradoxical mission—to dignify her subjects while teasing out the melodrama of their lives.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy documents women’s lives in the hope of combatting male power.

Many teen-agers working in grocery stores and restaurants are grappling with the pressure to help support their families, protect vulnerable loved ones, and plan for their own futures.

Iten, a small town in the Great Rift Valley, became the long-distance-running capital of the world. Then, within a span of six months, two élite athletes were found dead.

A pastor led his followers into the woods. Hundreds have since been found dead.

The Kenyan author, who died in 2019, ruthlessly took down the clichés of writing about the continent. His work is as relevant as ever.