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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Patricia De Lille, one of South Africa’s most popular post-apartheid politicians, claims she tried to redress spatial apartheid in Cape Town, but the legacy of her seven year run as mayor is one of violent forced removals and a refusal to upgrade informal settlements.
Hyper-partisan politics and shallow journalism obscured the implications of the protests at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.
Mbembe’s ‘Critique of Black Reason’ is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.
The future looks terrifying for many US-based exiles from Mauritania—facing deportation to Africa’s modern “slave nation” under Trump’s monstrous ICE.
On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.
Among the Ga people of Ghana, there’s more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.
Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.
Can transitional justice initiatives achieve their ambitious agenda of combatting gender based violence?
The major problem with the term “decolonization” is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.
An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe’s longtime fascination with African culture.
A border crossing mix of Afrobeats and Zouk and an interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic music producer, Lamin Fofana.
Brazil is the world’s second-largest African nation, but just elected an outright rightwing racist as president. It can’t be good for the continent.
What does the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro mean for Brazilians of African descent?
Caricatures aside, how do President Yoweri Museveni and the National Revolutionary Movement state reproduce power?
Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.
In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.