The Coloured Gangster
In Cape Town, gangs have come to dominate social and economic life for the city’s mostly coloured working class.
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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Beyond White Jesus
While many African Christians can only imagine a white Jesus, others have actively promoted a vision of a brown or black Jesus, both in art and in ideology.
General Sisi’s empty seats
Football and neoliberal repression go together in Egypt.
Ghana’s Rastas and the year of return
Ghana’s government likes to advertise its “Year of Return” to welcome members of the African diaspora back to the country, but the first returnees, Ratafarians, are still fighting for their rights.
Salif Keita’s incomparable call
The famed Malian musician celebrates his 70th birthday and 50 years in the industry in 2019.
Jour des morts
Comment le vol de cadavres au Gabon reflète la politique du pays.
Day of the dead
How stealing corpses in Gabon reflects its politics: a political system that does not hesitate to draw its vital force in death, even as death and paralysis threaten the system’s leading beneficiaries.
The problem with post-race comedy
Comics have power, especially over the young, and perhaps more than we care to acknowledge.
The confrontation with France’s slave past
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
The Erasure of Dulcie September
South African activist Dulcie September would have turned 84 today had she not been assassinated in March 1988. The podcast series They Killed Dulcie revisits the murder and her legacy.
Groundings with Walter Rodney
On the 50th anniversary of Walter Rodney’s The Groundings With My Brothers, a small group of scholars on the impacts of Rodney on their intellectual development and political commitments.
Long live Ruth First
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on this day, 17 August, in 1982.
Cake politics
The Rugby Championship, the World Cup, and Springbok politics in South Africa.
Architectural resistance
A collective of artists and architects are working to reimagine public space in abandoned property developments in Ghana’s capital city.
There is no Africa in African studies
The experience of studying Africa in London makes the writers question the validity of “African Studies” as is currently taught in Britain.
Okocha, love you. Pass Maradona!
The midfielder Augustine “Jay Jay” Okocha is arguably one of Nigeria’s best men’s football players ever. It is his birthday today, August 14th.
Beyond game day
Ultras or extreme fans of football clubs in Morocco use their collective identity to push for social and political demands.
The ghost battalion
On the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) the organized force behind the revolutionary uprising in Sudan.
Fathers of the nation
Some of the mythologies about Nelson Mandela don’t line up with actual histories.
The age of the influencer
One African feminist’s view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics.