The Black Mediterranean and the limits of liberal solidarity
The documentary film, ‘When Paul came over the sea’ (2017) is an important summary of the conditions and motives behind forced displacement of African migrants
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
The contemporary state of Ethiopia
2018 witnessed a fundamental shift in how Ethiopia’s ruling party governs. How did it come about, what is incomplete about this transition, and what happens next.
The global ways of white supremacy
White supremacy always relies on an international interdependence as Trump’s support for white extremists in South Africa shows.
Xenophobia and party politics in South Africa
All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters’ xenophobia and they’re outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.
What would happen if the women cut their ribbons?
Rungano Nyoni’s brilliant film I Am Not a Witch with humor and grace challenges our expectations put on girls.
The core of Samir Amin’s politics
The Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin’s contributions to historical social science—and revolutionary theory—span an almost mind-boggling breadth.
The now neglected history of Soviet anti-colonialism
A brief history of MN Roy, an Indian delegate to the Mexican Communist Party and how the Soviet Union came to support liberation efforts in colonized nations.
What happened on Bird Island
The pain caused by the South African Apartheid government has been widely recorded. But we may not have heard the half of it.
A story of love in the time of the constitution
The relationship of South African former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela with her daughter is a perfect metaphor for the state of the country’s politics.
Afri-comics in the afterlife
Lily Saint talks with historian William Worger about the archive of sponsored comics by South Africa’s Apartheid government that he is amassing at UCLA.
Brexit, diamonds and everyday corruption
The rise of populism across the US and Western Europe has been well documented, but it is not only an American or European issue. The case of Lesotho.
Marikana and the end of South African exceptionalism
South Africa’s problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.
It feels like 1980: On the fall of Mugabe
For Zimbabweans, we’re back where we started, then. Hope, no change. Still.
Everything happening to you is a wound
In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.
Eritrea beyond the media fanfare
So far, the only real beneficiaries of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea are Ethiopia and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
The Rugby revolution is not being televised
Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.
Taking a Mallett to SuperSport
When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.
Black skin, white ally
The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.
The US and France backs Cameroon’s reign of terror
When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?
Archiving Addis Ababa
Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.