Denouncing the reader
Zoë Wicomb thinks she knows why black South African readers appreciate Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel ‘The Promise’ (2021) whilst many white readers were turned off by it.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
A bracing form of political cabaret
‘Neptune Frost,’ written and co-directed by Saul Williams, knows that extraction is everyone’s problem.
A case for a labor party entryism in Nigeria
Peter Obi’s campaign for president points to new possibilities for a politics that represents Nigeria’s poor and working classes.
Flowers for Jimi Solanke
Jimi Solanke, now 80, was one of the key shapers of Nigerian theater and television in the second half of the last century. He is finally getting his due.
On safari
For the 10th anniversary of the Marikana massacre, we are planning a public event on August 20th to reflect on its legacies.
The afterlives of Marikana
Why do representative bodies like the union, the party, and the so-called Left seem to fail its constituents during struggles like Marikana?
Confronting police power
Accountability—insofar as it ever existed within the South African Police Service—has been reduced to a merely theoretical concept. It is time this changed.
Where do trade unions go from here?
In South Africa, the seismic shifts in unionism triggered by the Marikana Massacre have sadly not resulted in a union movement better equipped to tackle the issues that workers face.
Dreaming of the green blanket
The impact of the Marikana massacre on South Africa’s student movement for free education, and an end to outsourcing, has been overlooked.
The new imperialism’s strange bedfellows
Africa’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.
Tricky coalitions
The challenge presented by Argentina: What is the best way to deal with global fiscal pressures in a local context of high expectations and public demands?
We are all potential advocates
Director Shameela Seedat’s film about trainee lawyers provides a sort of celebration of youth on this continent and a vision of the next generation of Africans.
Lula can set the bar higher for a new presidency
Lula’s challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right.
AMLO’s way
Mexico’s president has a mandate for radical change, but this change must be negotiated within a context of limits produced by the neoliberal period itself.
Bookends: Chinelo Okparanta
The Nigerian-American author of the novel “Harry Sylvester Bird” talks to the Radical Books Collective ahead of her appearance at their book club.
The ground has shifted
Western conservation NGOs condemn violence against Maasai, but also don’t want herders or subsistence hunters on land they want to control and profit from.