The Goal is Clarity
When it comes to Israel and Palestine, for Americans, it doesn’t matter if the careful phrases contradict the most basic facts.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
South African Hip Hop Series: Interview With Khuli Chana
On the morning of 28th October 2013 – a Monday – South Africa woke up to
Obituary: Nadine Gordimer
My first introduction to Comrade Nadine was through her writing during my student activist days in
South African Hip Hop Series: Ill Skillz In Five Videos
Cape Town’s self-proclaimed two dope boyz Uno and Jimmy Flexx are Ill Skillz. At the end
Football is Politics in Nigeria
Nigeria is a serial offender at so many things, and the shenanigans in Nigerian football is consistent with its bad behavior.
The small businessman who took on the bread cartel
The struggle over the price of bread in South Africa is the struggle for adequate nourishment, and securing the right of the poor to flourish.
Another lazy South Africa ad
A common thread that runs through many bad commercials, is that the people who thought them up were incredibly lazy and uncreative.
Christmas Day for Football Fans
Football is a Country’s Elliot Ross has describes the World Cup Final, every four years, as Christmas Day for football fans, just better. The champion this time is Germany.
The Beautiful T-Shirt
Art, Politics, T-Shirts, Fútbol, Play: Africa is a Country joins forces with Los Angeles artists for a t-shirt project.
The Final Report
Today the 2014 World Cup in Brazil ends. It was a fun ride, and I don't
Kafka in Cameroon
Cameroon’s police apparently interrogated Samuel Eto’o and took away his passport over the team’s World Cup display.
This is not your conventional film about Liberia
Most films about Liberia are feature films or gritty documentaries focus almost perversely on the horrors of the civil war. Not “Out of my hand.”
This Studio Of A Life
The life and times of the great South African hip hop producer, Nyambz,
There’s something about “ghetto pranks”
Youtube “ghetto pranks” are meant to expose poor black people as “naturally” and irrationally angry.
Relegating good intentions to the dustbin
The last third or so of Director Phil Harrison’s film about Irish multinationals in South Africa suffers from needless flattening.
Photoscapes in Accra: Ofoe Amegavie Speaks
As photography in Ghana continues to gain recognition, Ofoe Amegavie is definitely one to watch. At
Shooting Lagos
In February of 2013, I made a hurried decision to head to Lagos, in an attempt
Buckingham Palace
District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.
Dreadlocked Rapunzel
The struggle to Africanize folktales that have been thought of as “owned” by rigid European narratives and European aesthetic expectations.
Pretoria’s Forgotten Hip-Hop Scene
In 2010, documentary filmmaker Sara Chitambo packed up five years’ worth of life in Cape Town