Promises and discontents
A new documentary focuses on using the soil’s carbon absorbent properties to solve the climate change problem.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Les Tunisiens noirs défient les interdits
En Tunisie, face au déni persistant de l’identité africaine, la communauté noire ne veut plus attendre.
Black Tunisians breaking taboos
Tunisia’s denial of its African identity persists today. Black Tunisians are fighting to change that.
Reading List: Kwasi Konadu
On telling stories through the evocative and varied moments in which humans live, rather than through the predictable and artificial plots historians devise.
Why the tree is producing bad apples
Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.
Lay him down on a high mountain
What is the South African political leader Robert Sobukwe’s legacy today?
A revolution deferred
As we remember the Arab Spring, the starting point should not be that it failed, but that it’s incomplete. Watch it live on Youtube and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
Unchain my art
The system to pay out royalties to musicians in South Africa says a lot about the racial inequalities in the local industry.
Don’t cede the streets
#FeesMustFall was the most serious challenge to the post-apartheid political order, but didn’t connect to broader working-class struggles. Now, despite police brutality, students are beginning to make those linkages.
The pathology of economics
COVID-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa.
The imagined immorality of refuge
Behind the anxieties about tackling forced displacement and terror, is the recognizable lexicon of racialized difference. This all infuses the practice of humanitarianism.
Economic crime in the Niger Delta
Shell and its counterparts in the oil industry in Nigeria must accept responsibility for horrors that result from their quests for profit. Everything else is just PR.
Two tales against neocolonialism
Working-class men try unsuccessfully to integrate themselves into new economies in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Mrinal Sen.
Capital in flight
Social policy is essential to creating more just African countries. Why is it not the norm across the continent?
Abandoning racial language
If we stop using terms to describe race at all, we risk undermining our struggle to eliminate racism.
Unearthing the past
How a new film about the murder of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September helps to unearth South Africa’s unresolved past. Stream it live on YouTube. Also subscribe to Patreon.