Havana and Washington: On African Time?
Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Historian Terence Ranger is no more
Zimbabwean historian Terence Ranger (1929-2015) is no more. Ranger was central to the historiography of Rhodesian
Race, class and domestic work in Latin America
The author on how she developed consciousness about the centrality of domestic work in her native Colombia and further afield
Some observations on race and security in South Africa
The writer, an anthropologist, gets a quick lesson on race and crime on a visit to South Africa.
Steven George Gerrard: A Man Apart
The remarkable thing about Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s reserve is that it never prevents him from protecting those whom he leads.
Dutch elites and blackface
Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.
Who is Dulcie September?
The author stars as the famed South African activist in a new play. Dulcie September was murdered by a conspiracy of South African and French death squads.
An archive for historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014)
“We know… but we don’t know.” These were words that we heard often from Jeff Guy
The Books of 2014
Christmas is coming, and like the German Bundesliga we're going to be taking a wee break on
Slave Biographies
Last week, I discussed the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and two of its offshoot projects, the African
Decolonising white Berlin
The myth of an all-white, Christian German society largely persists. So does the idea that anyone
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa’s second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
The Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Can an African language literature prize be inherently Pan-African?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Philippe Lacôte
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.
Why we can’t breathe
The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.