Let Kenyan planes fly
The writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Gazing at a distance
Two exhibits at the same museum: one seeking to deconstruct the white Western gaze, the other perpetuating it.
Wasila Tasi’u is fifteen years old and out of prison
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi'u, was charged
Vamba Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
Weekend Music Break No.78
South Carolina and the island that Haitians and Dominicans share is on our minds this weekend, so
The stranger among you
How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song “Lagos” – for our series “Liner Notes,” in which musicians talk about making music.
Buika is the best
Earlier this week I was at the launch of a friend's excellent book about music piracy.
The US nostalgia for racist regimes in Africa
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
A certain kind of Black
A meditation on Haiti and Charleston. Being Black, these days, means living in constant state of siege.
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Freedom, youth and remembrance
In the documentary “Remembered Futures” the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Dominican state and the country’s elites make up a history of conflict with Haiti to justify the periodic deportation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
Hillbrow invasion with @YoungstaCPT
Cape Town-based wordsmith Youngsta's been in Johannesburg for a few weeks, here on a mission to build bridges and shake
What’s the word? Sister/woman have you heard from Manenberg?
To honor the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising, aka Youth Day, the Rock Girls are on
Badvertising and the Soweto Uprising
The worst crime of a new ad “celebrating” the martyrs of 1976 is the message does not accord with the realities of young black South Africans.
Bashir’s last trip outside of Sudan
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir?
Weekend Music Break No.77
Weekend Music Break, your weekly round up of hot tunes and music news from around the