If you’re wondering where we are (if you don’t read through to the end of posts) and why the page doesn’t change, we’re on a break this month. However, that hasn’t stopped us from tweeting away or posting short missives on our Facebook page. We’ll be back on September 3rd. Till then we have to ask: What was Jay Z thinking during this 2006 visit to Angola?

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.