“Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” the semi-autobiographical feature debut of director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, is a gentle slow-burn that occasionally becomes electric. A rural gay story that ...

HT at Sundance | Sabar Bonda made history as the first Marathi feature film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. What does it mean to be a gay man in India? Not the India of urban ...

By Saikou Jammeh Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three military-ruled countries have officially withdrawn from the West African regional alliance known as ECOWAS, the bloc said on Wednesday ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in ...

Reflective Jewelry now imports and creates jewelry from responsibly sourced artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

Sundance: First-time filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s story about two unmarried Indian men begins with the premise that the protagonist’s mother supports his queerness. A queer Marathi ...

Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor ...

With dazzling pieces from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, these historic gems may just cost less than today’s designer ...

Yet, for 600 million people in Africa, this right remains out of reach. They lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality of ...

Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman appear in "Sabar Bonda" ("Cactus Pears") by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Credit: Vikas Urs / Courtesy of ...

The first Africa-France summit to be held outside of France will be in Kenya in 2026. Overall, more trade and investments and less neocolonial meddling from Paris wouldn’t be such a bad thing.