Africa doesn’t care about its women
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I remember it well. One afternoon, in an immigration office in Freetown, I applied for my
Africa doesn’t care about its women
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I remember it well. One afternoon, in an immigration office in Freetown, I applied for my
A Photographer of African Liberation
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During the Sixth Pan-African Congress—a political gathering launched at the turn of the 20th century by the theorist, writer, and activist W.E.B.
South Africa’s Third Way revival
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South African president Cyril Ramaphosa will remain president after the May 2019 election. The ruling African
Revolutionary political thought in South Sudan
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In 2011, South Sudan celebrated its secession from Sudan as a triumph of both “bullets and
Abantu Book Festival is archive of the future
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For anyone wishing to understand contemporary South Africa, there is no better place to start than
Indignity and solidarity are being televised in Algeria
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“Algeria is an epic, huge, black hole. No one knows anything about.” A very good friend of mine told me this, not long
The politics of a coup d’etat
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Fifty-three years ago, on February 24th, 1966, President Kwame Nkrumah, the first leader of independent Ghana and champion of
Sudan’s Doctors Treating the Political Ailments of the Nation
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Since the December 2018 demonstrations against the 30-year rule of President Omar al Bashir, began, Sudanese
Ruffling feathers and the power of telling our own stories
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In November 2018, the South African fast food chain Chicken Licken launched a new ad campaign. “A long long
Bisi Silva, time remembered
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According to a report by PM News Nigeria, Bisi Silva (born Olabisi Obafunke Silva, 1962), curator, critic, and art educator, died on the
The ways in which movement can and cannot heal
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There is a scene in A Stranger’s Pose, Emmanuel Iduma’s new nonfiction book, when he wanders the Moroccan city, Rabat,
The film festival film
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Shit got real at the debut screening of the exciting short film, Film Festival Film at the 69th Berlinale. The South
The contradictions of Africa-China in Guangzhou
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Guangzhou, in Southern China, hosts the largest community in China of people from the African continent.
Sidney Poitier and Capitalist Decolonization
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Sidney Poitier, who turned 92 on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, once complained about “all those dumb-ass
Laughing pains
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One of the South African comedian Loyiso Gola’s most incisive jokes is this punchline: “Do white
Magical realism in Accra
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The Ghanaian film, The Burial of Kojo, is a gift to self, offered as a collective experience which expands
Walter Rodney’s postcolonial vision
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Between April and June of 1978, Walter Rodney, then already an important intellectual for his book, How
Who’s reporting Africa now?
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NGOs have responded swiftly to widespread cost-cutting in Western media organizations by recruiting former journalists as
The Zambian farmers who are suing a mining company in a British court
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Zambia’s economic development since the 1920s has been heavily dependent on copper mining. 60% of the country’s
Will Kenya’s government unban a lesbian love story?
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“I heard of your return home from Mama Atim our next door neighbour. You remember her, don’t you? We