By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea’s electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country’s postcolonial maladies
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Weekend Music Break No.104 – Songs from banned countries: Sudan edition
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Crime in South Africa
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country’s cities.
Power against Power in Ghana
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.
White masks in Tunisia
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night
The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.
The Delasi Edition
This selection of smooth Afropop illustrates Delasi’s transnational vision for contemporary African art and music.
Europe’s refugee colonialism
EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
What lessons on fascism can we learn from Africa’s colonial past?
In the 1930s fascism’s face was immediately recognizable in colonial Africa. It was neither a foreign concept nor an external threat in Africa.
Every nation needs a team kit
An Australian sports apparel company makes shirts for low profile national soccer teams, including a number of African ones.
Winter In America Edition
Music Break Number 102 goes out to our American family, set to face four years of struggle against a new set of rulers.
African inequality rising
Every country in Africa is today less equal than it was in 2010; for the African masses the trickle-down benefits of economic growth have been relatively small.
Opening Angola’s past to public debate
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
“Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity” (Lumumba, 1960)
MLK was a Pan-African
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK’s birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.
The market decides if we are free
Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.
The long short history of Angola-Israel relations
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.
The Arabs had a country
No figure in the Arab world embodies the ideals and contradictions of Pan-Arabism more than Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser.
‘Doing good’ in an age of parody
Why does being in on the joke not slow down the desire to save Africans?