The film festival film
A documentary film about a black filmmaker and her struggles to make a film about Marike de Klerk.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
The contradictions of Africa-China in Guangzhou
The reality for Africans living in China’s ‘African City’ contrast greatly with the way their governments and China’s leaders interact.
Sidney Poitier and Capitalist Decolonization
Poitier is a pioneer in Hollywood (the first black male actor to win an Oscar), but, like in most of his US acting roles, he also played it safe in African roles he took on.
Laughing pains
Stand-up comedy, especially black stand-up, and the political in South Africa.
How to manage post-colonial African economies
For one, take economic management out of the control of neoliberal technocrats.
Magical realism in Accra
The film, “The Burial of Kojo,” sparks a vital conversation about the intersections of heritage, politics, and spirituality in Ghana and in Africa at large.
Walter Rodney was way ahead of his time
Rediscovered lectures Walter Rodney gave in 1978 in Hamburg shows a reflective intellectual, thinking critically about postcolonial African governance.
Who’s reporting Africa now?
NGOs and freelance journalists are increasingly filling the vacuum being left by a declining Western media presence. It’s not all good.
Entry-level misogyny
In a heteronormative society like Nigeria, men are entitled to sex with any and all women.
The Zambian farmers who are suing a mining company in a British court
In January 2019, a group of Zambian farmers brought their fight for justice to the UK Supreme Court, in a case with far-reaching implications for multinational companies.
Donald Trump’s Africa policy
The involvement of far right and conservative think tanks in developing Trump’s Africa agenda.
Will Kenya’s courts let gay people live?
Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.
We know from political crises in Africa that foreign intervention is a bad idea
Foreign support for governments that benefit privileged elites and their external backers perpetuate violence and instability. It won’t be any different for Latin American countries like Venezuela.
American tribalism
Political ‘tribalism’ has for far too long been seen as an African problem. It is also an American problem, reflecting parallel legacies of colonialism.
The Education We Want
African teachers organize themselves against privatization of public education. These academics are widespread in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
Scenes from a youthful uprising
After years of divide and rule by President Omar al-Bashir, the youth of Sudan have united to push him out.