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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies—especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.
How did South Africa’s white working class—those close to the politicized black workforce—experience the reform of apartheid?
Why did white mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt not seriously resist decolonization?
A Kenyan investigative journalist reflects on the capture of a genocidaire in Paris after 26 years on the run and its significance to the families of the victims left in his wake.
The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination.
The imperial legacy of the camera and the narrative power of words and images.
Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.
What do we gain by exposing the material shortcomings of African health systems?
The intersecting dynamics of class and gender, changing beauty ideals, and the expansion of consumer capitalism in Africa.
We need swift, bold, and decisive action on debt relief and monetary creation in Africa in order to face the coronavirus crisis and prevent many ordinary Africans from paying with their lives.
Onejoon Che’s film about North Korea’s relationship to African countries suggests a unique transcontinental relationship that resists easy classification.
In South Africa, we are not in a situation where we need to choose between saving lives and protecting livelihoods. It is far worse. We are in danger of losing both.
The coverage of African women in the mainstream media continues to be lacking and often times problematic. The website, African Feminism, wants to change that.
COVID-19 exposes the continued inability of most white South Africans to critically reflect on privilege or engage constructively about the handling of the pandemic.
A close friend remembers the Kenyan writer and commentator Binyavanga Wainaina (January 18, 1971 – May 21, 2019).
There’s a certain humanity in the work of late South African photographer Santu Mofokeng in how he approached his subjects and the politics of representation.