The descent of our fathers
A remembrance for Father’s Day.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Ghana didn’t qualify for the World Cup, so which African team do I support?
One Ghanaian football fan wrestles with which teams to support in this year’s World Cup after the Black Stars failed to qualify.
Giant Russian dolls in Egyptian national team jerseys
Reflections on World Cup fever from Cairo and my Canadian immigrant father’s Egyptian football nationalism.
Game of Chicken
Reliving the epic quarterfinal match between reigning European football champions, France, and 1983 Copa America runners-up, Brazil, at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
The beautiful month
We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.
Reconsidering France’s role in the Rwandan genocide
It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.
Who gets to define borders?
What will the renewed land debate in South Africa mean for the border woes of neighbors such as Lesotho?
Cameroon on the brink
Paul Biya’s inability to address the crisis in the country’s Anglophone region is pushing the nation to the brink.
Captain Kolisi
South Africa’s national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history–24 years after the end of Apartheid.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Apo Six, Forever
A reflection on police brutality in Nigeria on the anniversary of the death of the ‘Apo Six.’
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz’s take on Childish Gambino’s viral “This Is America.”
This is democracy, political hysteria
Why has Childish Gambino’s “This is America” video resonated with so many people around the world?
Young, Latin & Black
Chief Boima and Francesca Harding on race and cultural difference in Latin America through the lens of trap music.
The Nelson Chamisa chimera in Zimbabwe
While entertaining, the showy presidential campaign of Zimbabwe’s opposition may not amount to much on July 30th.
The untimely death of Afonso Dhlakama
Mozambicans feel the death of the former leader of Renamo could put a wrench in the path towards a peaceful, democratic future.
Africa Day is for Big Men
For decades, Big Men in different forms have had their day in Africa, and have forced us to celebrate “Africa Day” every year. It’s time for a change.
Mohamed Salah and the Egyptians
Sergio Ramos’ injury to Mohamed Salah in the 2018 UEFA Champion’s League final set him up for a world of insults from Egyptian football fans.
Flight of the Boers
South Africa’s lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right.
Full steam ahead
Is there a future for industrialization on the African continent?