Checkpoint Babylon
The depressing new norm for one of the most vibrant grassroots, immigrant cultural traditions in New York City.
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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.
Africa Is a Radio presents #INTLBLK, Episode 1
It has been awhile since our last Africa Is a Country Radio episode. More than a
Unequal Scenes
Anthropologist Johnny Miller’s aerial photographs chronicles geographic stratifications in South Africa and beyond.
Look to Cuba
Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.
The South African Youths
An edited version of this post appeared in the South African newspaper, City Press, as part of “Thought We Had Something Going,” an e-anthology exploring post-1994 experiences.
The Arab Left at an Impasse
That the recent revolutions failed to transcend political stagnation, is a product of the way neoliberalism functions as an ideology.
The low bar for African elections
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections “free and fair,” and others not.
The Worker with a Pen
In his life and books, Alex La Guma struggled for a society in which all people could find their humanity, argues his friend Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Voting in Angola
After an 11-year wait to vote in my own country, the whole thing took 3 minutes. One week later I’m still waiting to hear who won.
The dark and white side of conservation
How easily white landowners in Kenya can utilize the trope of “the maddened land invader” to conjure global support for an unequal land system.
Uganda’s Bonfire Youth
A group of young Ugandans employ poetry and storytelling to speak out against state repression, corruption and abuse of power.
Despacito Will Not Save Us
The hit song and its production reflect everything that is wrong with the music industry and how it exploits the cultural production of communities of color.
Algeria’s Black Fear
In much Algerian discourse, including by its human rights NGO’s, black Africans are pathologized as disease carriers.
Jeffrey Gettleman’s tired tome
Jeffrey Gettleman was until recently the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He left Africans a memoir, ‘Love, Africa.’
Black Fire
When Cape Jazz found a perfect mix with R&B, fusion and pop.
New ways of being Nigerian
There is a worrisome, undue accent on ethnic and sub-ethnic affiliations deserving scrutiny in Nigeria. Until
How the Nigerian Left imploded
It is difficult to find a credible Left political party or tendency within or outside the existing mainstream political structure in Nigeria.
What about human rights for ‘non-humans’
Human rights cannot offer a framework for humanizing the non-human savage – the non-human black body – because it is not designed to do so.
Next time you see the Mediterranean
The number of African migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean is a tragedy, shamefully under-analyzed over the past 20 years.
Elections, amnesia and impunity in Kenya
Peace narratives cover up the need to address historical injustice and end a culture of impunity dating back to the days of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta and continuing via his son, President Uhuru Kenyatta.