
Poster art that challenged apartheid
The African Activist Archive Project website contains posters from the African solidarity movement from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
The African Activist Archive Project website contains posters from the African solidarity movement from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Netta Kornberg watch film trailers so you don’t have to: This time, Namibian short films are the focus of her #TrailerTakedown.
For the author, watching memorials for Mandela, South Africans have lost their ability to generate theater, the theater of the mass event.
At an event meant to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life, Jacob Zuma was not only embarrassed by the crowd (they booed him multiple times), by those on stage.
Hollywood films about Nelson Mandela separates him from the movement that produced him. The fact is, movements made Mandelas, not the other way around.
Safiath, ZM, Habsou Garba and Fati Mariko: producing diverse sounds in rap, hip-hop and soul.
John Langalibalele Dube was the first President-General of the ANC. Nelson Mandela its 11th president. Mandela was a great admirer of Dube, an exceptional figure in his own right.
Parody performers, the Naija Boyz, take on Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.” It is unclear what they’re trying to say.
The film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the questions and limits of what one will do for love, told by an unorthodox filmmaker.
The Mandela who needs celebrating is the Mandela who, if he was not Lenin, never pretended to be something else.
The Brother Moves On is not anti-ANC. Their new music rather speaks to the ideals of the liberation movement and asks if this is what we fought for.
The one individual the African continent was unanimously proud and infinitely grateful of, was Nelson Mandela.
The author, remembering Mandela, writes how South Africa galvanized progressive energies in the US in the 1980s.
In April 1962, Mandela traveled on an Ethiopian passport in the name of David Motsomayi. He visited Morocco, Algeria, and Mali.