The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
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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.
When Rex Tillerson toured some of Africa’s “shithole” countries
Right before he was fired, outgoing US Secretary of State visited six African countries. Here’s why.
Tanzania, Black Power, and the uncertain future of Pan-Africanism
Why did Tanzania and Julius Nyerere become touchstones for Pan Africanism in the 1960s and 1970s?
What kind of city is an African architecture for?
Despite a chronic housing and land shortage, Liberia’s capital has not seen militant urban social movements.
One Percent Feminism
Neoliberalism’s model of social justice: the rich prosper, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or women.
Drake’s Plan
The plot of Drake’s music video for “God’s Plan” is him giving him out money to the poor. What was he trying to say?
Burkina Faso and the realization that it is possible to win
Burkina Faso is a rare recent instance of a popular movement that managed to directly topple a sitting government.
A record Congo doesn’t want
More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Keorapetse Kgositsile was a feminist
How Kgositsile ensured he never expressed himself like a white man.
Does China have the power to change governments in Africa?
That China influences ‘regime change’ in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.
Liberia’s stress test for democracy
The question since the return to civilian rule in Liberia has been how quickly its fragmented institutions could be rebuilt.
No noose or barbed wire is thick enough to hide the sun
Solomon Mahlangu was a famed liberation fighter in South Africa hanged by Apartheid in 1979. His legacy is the subject of a new film.
Sex work on the other side of the sea
Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don’t focus on migrant women’s motives.
Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
When is a coup a coup?
The African Union has made it a policy to challenge unconstitutional transitions of power. Why not in Zimbabwe?
Cape Town’s exceptionalism
Cape Town has always been like other African cities in how it treats its poorer, black, residents. The water crisis just amplifies these divides.
Doing the Ramaphosa Shuffle
South Africa’s President carries much hope. But fundamental change requires he radically restructures the state and the economy.
After Morgan Tsvangirai — the future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s splintered opposition appears poised to be out-maneuvered by the ruling ZANU-PF in elections later this year.
Searching for white genocide in South Africa
The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.
Why is the cultural life of Black Panther so derivative?
In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality.