Seeking fantasies across the sea
By centering the African migrant perspective, a new film challenges Western images that cast hundreds of thousands of individuals into the generic role of desperation.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
Taking a stand
The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras.
Born of struggle
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.
Círculo completo
O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.
Full circle
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
Children are the first to die
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.
An electoral autocracy
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.
Diomaye’s first weeks
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.
The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
Beware of false prophets
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
Reaching for life
In Sudan, the focus must remain on supporting the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace, stability, and democratic governance.
An unfinished project
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
Mosque diplomacy
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
A sojourn in Sharjah
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
Les femmes dans la nation sénégalaise
Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l’histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes.