Liberia’s stress test for democracy
The question since the return to civilian rule in Liberia has been how quickly its fragmented institutions could be rebuilt.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
No noose or barbed wire is thick enough to hide the sun
Solomon Mahlangu was a famed liberation fighter in South Africa hanged by Apartheid in 1979. His legacy is the subject of a new film.
Sex work on the other side of the sea
Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don’t focus on migrant women’s motives.
Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
When is a coup a coup?
The African Union has made it a policy to challenge unconstitutional transitions of power. Why not in Zimbabwe?
Cape Town’s exceptionalism
Cape Town has always been like other African cities in how it treats its poorer, black, residents. The water crisis just amplifies these divides.
Doing the Ramaphosa Shuffle
South Africa’s President carries much hope. But fundamental change requires he radically restructures the state and the economy.
After Morgan Tsvangirai — the future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s splintered opposition appears poised to be out-maneuvered by the ruling ZANU-PF in elections later this year.
Searching for white genocide in South Africa
The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.
Why is the cultural life of Black Panther so derivative?
In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality.
The young Walter Rodney
Long before Walter Rodney wrote ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,’ he was profoundly shaped by his studies in Jamaica.
Colouring in the All Blacks
Why would a group of black, mostly coloured, South African rugby supporters openly root for New Zealand teams over their own.
Black America’s Africa
Black Panther arrives as black America diversifies, but the US becomes more isolationist. It’s not beyond many African Americans to reflect nativist tendencies.
The war on smugglers
Nigerian Twitter: “If you want to help Libya slaves/immigrants, don’t bring them back home. Help them reach their destination in Europe”
I have a problem with ‘Black Panther’
Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard ‘Black Panther’ as a counterrevolutionary film.
The ghosts of Adwa
The Ethiopia inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism in 1896 was a colonizing state itself.
South Africa’s Transition from Zuma to Ramaphosa
Jacob Zuma’s nearly decade long regime competed with Thabo Mbeki as the worst presidency of South Africa’s short post-apartheid order.
The folly of ‘wait-and-see’ politics in Zimbabwe
The attitude that Zimbabweans need to give Mnangagwa a chance and not be quick to criticize, is what led to Mugabe’s dictatorship.
A man of the people: Morgan Tsvangirai
Tsvangirai’s legitimacy was born out of his trusted representation of workers’ interests and the charismatic force of his personality.
The strange history of an imperial skirmish in Niger
There is a collective national ignorance that surrounds the United States’ vast military presence in Africa.