Aliko Dangote needs the Nigerian state to thrive
Despite what Dangote wants us to believes about the magical power of entrepreneurship, his business savvy alone is not why he made it.
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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.
The tale of two presidents
When rain falls on a leopard, it does not wash off his spots. The same can’t be said of Kenya’s media and the opposition after Uhuru Kenyatta’s crackdown.
Wokeness and the professional outrage machine
Social media group-think derails any chance for a progressive political movement.
No platform for Apartheid
30 years ago, free speech advocates were more willing to tolerate far-right voices than oppose them. It’s now happening again.
Pythons and lily pads
Is the US military on its way to Ghana to set up base? What do Ghanaians think.
Black in Berlin
Living in the city that hosted the 1884 conference where Western powers divided up Africa for themselves
Nollywood 3.0
Dare Olaitan’s film Ojukokoro gets some room to breathe in New York, after being stifled at the box office in Lagos.
A cinema of dissent
Burkinabe filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo was a singular talent in African cinema. His films championed marginalized people and cultures.
Nipsey’s immigrant hustle
Eritrean-American rapper Nipsey Hussle mix of immigrant and street hustle.
David Goldblatt at the Centre Georges Pompidou
The South African photographer has a complicated place within his country’s photographic culture.
African story time
George Clooney and John Prendergast’s simple story about African conflict breeds ineffective solutions.
The Angolan regime’s least favorite journalist
Despite the political reforms by Angola’s government, the harassment of anti-corruption journalist Rafael Marques continues.
Wakanda’s feminist scorecard
How the celebrated film Black Panther stacks up in its depiction of decolonized African feminism.
The peculiar nostalgia for the former Bantustans in South Africa
Some South Africans are looking back on the apartheid era’s Bantustan homelands with reverence. Here is why.
And what for future generations in Sierra Leone?
In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.
#MeToo, Africa too?
Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?
We have new clothes
For months, we have been threatening to launch a new website. Well, now it’s here!
The Afghanistan-ization of Africa
Most people are unaware that U.S. troops are active in almost every African country.
Love and life on the flipside of Dar es Salaam
It is nice to see two female leads in an African film that are not doing hair, casting some sort of ju-ju curse or throwing vases at cheating husbands.
Addressing the genocide in Namibia
It took almost 110 years for Germany to accept the fact of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1908.