The Empire Strikes Back
Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Story of a South African Farm School
The Elsenburg Agricultural College lies 50 km east of Cape Town, tucked among the quiet valleys
Fed up and not afraid
Anti-government protests in Zimbabwe face the risk of falling into obscurity – the unfortunate and all too common destination of many such movements.
Poetry as design
Collapsing the binaries hard-wired into the logic and narrative of “uber-gentrification;” the latter representing the conquest of science over art, technology over soul and innovation over old.
Africa’s austerity apocalypse
The rowing acceptance of what critics of structural adjustment programs have been arguing for decades, (seems to have had minimal impact on the IMF’s actions.
The Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Anjan Sundaram’s Rwanda exists in an authoritarian bubble characterized by fear and repression.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
What does Brexit mean for Africa?
The short answer: The UK doesn’t have the same influence on the continent that it did decades ago. And Brexit will be further proof of that.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #17
In the shadow of the Brexit vote, on this episode of Africa is a Radio, we
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali’s political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni’s work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
What African economies need: good, old fashioned industrial policy
In terms of economic development, most African countries are operating below the least developed country income
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
Weekend Music Break No.97
Here's another Music Break to soundtrack your weekend! This round up is the "other countries" edition with
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you’re not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
The Greatest Of All Time
The author, also named Muhammad, on what having a black hero meant during his childhood in Apartheid South Africa.