The spear of the nation
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd’s killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
The war on women and children in South Africa
The family is the site of extremely violent incidents in South African society—particularly involving women and children. What can the state do?
The ‘New’ Neoliberal Uganda
Challenging the success narrative that masks the disruptive social impact of neoliberal transformation under General Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.
This is what a neoliberal trade union looks like
Zambia’s mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.
The house of exile
Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.
O problema com ‘Black Panther’
No primer aniversario do estreno do filme ‘Black Panther,’ re-publicamos o ensaio de Russell Rickford traducido em Português.
Schooling desegregation and decolonization are not the same thing
Constant attention to segregation in formerly white South African schools limits our understanding of how race works in the school system.
African history on its own terms
There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa’s history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.
Ghana’s royal visitors
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
Bus politics in Dar es Salaam
The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers’ union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.
The disidentification of Mahamat Saleh Haroun
2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad’s first feature film, ‘Bye Bye Africa.’
A technocratic reformulation of colonialism
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.
Meditating on youth in Mogadishu
In Somalia young people are the majority, yet have to act and perform “age”—appear older—to succeed or get anywhere in life.
What’s new? Making money off poor school children again
The latest trick is to transfer tax-payer funded aid aimed at Africa and the Middle East into the pockets of corporations and individuals.
Speculative view
Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria
ZANU’s neo-liberal turn (again) and the Shutdown in Zimbabwe
How to make sense of the early 2019 protests in Zimbabwe.
Albert Luthuli, MLK and global human rights
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa’s biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He’s been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
Voltamos a Africa
Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro’s toxic, racist, rightwing regime?
How meaningful is the ‘change’ in the DRC?
It’s the first time an African president appears to have rigged an election, not in favor of his hand-picked successor, but in favor of an opposition politician.
Social media, repression and the crisis in Cameroon
Despite consistent and protracted attempts by government to repress access to social media and freedom of expression, citizen’s voices are being heard over the internet in Cameroon.