Kutafuta mapinduzi Senegal
Maisha ya mwanaharakati na msanii wa Senegal Omar Blondin Diop yatasaidia kutoa mtazamo wa jinsi siasa za kiukombozi zilivyo katika ukoloni mamboleo.
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Golda Gatsey
Golda Gatsey is a freelance writer and customer relationship manager.
The universal right to breathe
Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?
The roots album that never got made
The “World Music” record industry has a lot to do with what kinds of reggae music we get to hear and consume.
The violence within us
Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.
Representing northern Ghana
A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.
Can a virus accelerate change in Africa?
African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?
Reading List: Cara Moyer-Duncan
Media scholar Cara Moyer-Duncan wrote a book about postapartheid South Africa. Here she gives her book picks for our #ReadingList series.
The other Afropolitans
What it means to be a man and a feminist.
O ponto de ruptura
Iniciam nosso projecto sobre o capitalismo em Nairobi, perguntando: Será que já não existe um salário decente?
Janga la mfumo mpya wa ubepari
Tunaanza uchambuzi wetu kuhusu ubepari jijini Nairobi tukiuliza: Je, kuna kitu kama mshahara mzuri siku hizi?
The breaking point
We start our project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?
The brutal beauty of Morocco’s Soccer Ultras
Raja Casablanca’s fan clubs are well organized, politically active and occasionally violent.
Lockdown 2.0
What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?
Saturday mornings
Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city’s working class African immigrants.
Notes on post-revolutionary Sudan
The ghosts of our past mercilessly haunt our present.
Abolition across the Atlantic
Why are South Africans not in the streets against police brutality like Americans are? It has less to do with the internet or middle classes. South Africans are captured by punitive logics. Break that.
The Senghor Myth
Once you’ve exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.
I join my president to pray for my country
The misguided rhetoric of Tanzanian President John Magufuli guides the country’s response to COVID-19.
Young, gifted, and pregnant
A series of social and political interventions are required to bring down Kenya’s startling teenage pregnancy statistics.
Our inaugural class of Africa Is a Country Fellows
Funded by Shuttleworth Foundation, we will support original work by 10 fellows. It makes real our goal to construct “a world where Africans are in control of their own narrative.”