Living at the margins of urban life in Angola
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For a while now, photos have been circulating on social media—still a viable option for circumventing the official
Living at the margins of urban life in Angola
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For a while now, photos have been circulating on social media—still a viable option for circumventing the official
The energy that never dies
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I first saw Baaba Maal in 1987 when he came to perform in my hometown, Galoya, in northern Senegal.
Renovating the AfricaMuseum
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After five years of renovation that cost over 65 million euros, the infamous AfricaMuseum in Belgium has reopened its doors. Even before
Why I’ll keep talking to Southern Africans about race
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A short while back, the Zimbabwean-South African writer Panashe Chigumadzi wrote on this site that she was no longer talking to
The revolution in four-part harmony
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In the 1970s the legendary American trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie remarked to Hugh Masekela, the South
Rescuing Nelson Mandela from sainthood
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Like millions of South Africans, my own story is deeply tied to that of Nelson Mandela. It begins
Reclaiming the narrative of the Algerian revolt
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The popular revolt in Algeria is nothing short of a forceful (re)statement of what it means
Why are South African children struggling to read properly?
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Eight out of every 10 children in South Africa can’t read properly. Not in English, not in their home
This is where decolonization discourse should be front and center, not as sloganeering, but as a set of practical, policy-orientated propositions to systematically change oppressive industries and institutions. For example, the design of mechanisms to ensure fair payment for children’s authors working in African languages or prioritization of guides to elevate standards for writing, editing and translating across African languages.
Another rhino report
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Rhinos are making headlines again. More specifically, those who are killing rhinos for their horns are
Media coverage of rhino poaching in Southern Africa not only fails to address white control over conservation, but also reinforces it.
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The white knight mentality in global North reporting on conservation across Africa is clearly evident (the documentary includes footage of Player on horseback and bakkie-riding down a rhino with a dart gun) and a topic which this site has previously addressed (“Open letter to 60 Minutes” from March 25 2015). This disparity in reporting is not confined to conservation. See coverage of recent “tricky” debates over the restitution of museum collections or efforts to combat Ebola in the DRC.
The Nigerian electricity story
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In Nigeria, the acronym NEPA famously has two possible meanings. The first is what it was originally meant to designate, the National
Gutting the public sector serves no one
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For the past 10 years, my research has centered on regional food provisioning and exchange systems. Since 2014, our Malawian and American research team has focused on Lilongwe’s
The Joe Miller model
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My well-worn copy of Joe Miller’s Way of Death: Merchants of Capitalism and the Angolan State (published by University of Wisconsin
The meaning of party politics in Ghana’s urban neighborhoods
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On February 23, many Accra residents excitedly posted photos of Ghana’s former president John Mahama across Facebook after his primary victory. “God
Voice of the Cape
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A clock ticks. A slow, but augmenting stream of traffic echoes in the distance as the athaan,
Laboratories for violence
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In February 2019, the Republic of Chad dispatched a convoy of more than 500 men to
Bridging visual distance
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The artist Alfredo Jaar has said that “we are the sum of all the stimuli we receive,” and certainly
Frontiers of dystopia
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“President Biya cannot be considered an equal of Mr. Kamto, who is a citizen like everyone else, and must
The politics of ethical deception
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi keeps making news on the African continent as the furore over his statue in Ghana or the proposed statue in Malawi raise debates over his attitude to Africans, his belief
Israel and Palestine: The South African Alternative
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There can be no reconciliation unless both peoples, two communities of suffering, resolve that their existence
Rwanda has an opposition problem
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At the start of March 2019, Anselme Mutuyimana, the spokesperson of the United Democratic Forces of