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
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
We know from political crises in Africa that foreign intervention is a bad idea
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The political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in oil-rich Venezuela has caught the world’s attention. As foreign powers position themselves for intervention,
American tribalism
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It is time to shift the geography of political tribalism in order to recognize the United States as a
Halting the corporate capture of education in Africa
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Education International (EI), the global federation of education unions has 32 million members worldwide, making it one of the largest and most influential
Scenes from a youthful uprising
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More than 60% of Sudan’s population of almost 40 million people have never known a president
And yet we pray
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When Douvan Jou Ka Leve (“The Sun Will Rise”) received the “Best Documentary Feature” award at Philadelphia’s BlackStar Film Festival in August 2018, its director, Gessica Généus was not
Democracy by numbers
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A key political trend of the past three decades is the spread of formal democracy through the global South. This posed
Hopes for a Green October in Sudan
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Early in January 2011 as Sudan was going through the process of splintering in two, I was
The burden of being Nigerian in Ghana
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This past week, my morning radio habit led me to a convoluted talk show on Ghanaian radio