The fragility of the Mozambican state
Cyclone Idai exposed a state weakened by an extractivist development model and captured by global capital, exposing ordinary Mozambicans.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
The geo-politics of Malcolm X
Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America’s post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.
The collapse of oil for insecurity
Why Venezuela’s turmoil and the Khashoggi crisis portend an even darker geopolitics of oil.
Yacht rock or slave ship rock?
Once we’re done talking about its viral quality, is Toto’s “Africa” a song about the continent with the same name, or a song about how millions of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?
Africans are largely on their own facing climate change
What the response to #CycloneIdai tells us about Zimbabweans’ relationship to the state and each other.
Protest art in Sudan’s uprising
Drawing on a long history of political art and protest and to bypass old media censorship, Sudani artists go to the street and online to complement street protests.
Reanimating mobile cinema
Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.
How the poor can fight back against the banks
The small business owners revolution in Tanzania: Form a poor people’s bank.
Thinking with Africa, making the world
How could thinking with Africa help us fulfill our humanity? And might thinking with Africa open up a possibility for world-making?
Diagnosing neopatrimonialism
It’s been very difficult to pin down what political scientists, who favor the term, mean when they talk about patrimonialism or neopatrimonialism.
What is the Dangbe word for chameleon?
When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.
Accountability for Apartheid?
The legacy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission twenty-one years later.
A radical electoral alternative in Nigeria stutters
Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria’s more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?
Algeria’s bloodless coup
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s latest attempt to buy time and the way ahead for the three week-long popular uprising against his and the military’s rule.
Camp of the Saints
The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today’s violent white, rightwing populism.
Namaste India
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.
Sarkodie and the politics for ‘freedom-making’
Hiplife artist Sarkodie has proposed that what Ghana needs is a dictatorship. This is not inconsistent with his politics, rooted in promoting male success and a patriarchal vision of liberation.
Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
Friday Black
The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.
A beautiful line of flight
If what has been happening in Algeria since February 22, 2019, may not be a revolution, it very much looks like it.