Subverting the reified status of whiteness
What’s missing from feminist readings of Nollywood romantic comedy ‘Isoken’ are readings that gets at the film’s racial politics.
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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.
Jonathan Jansen’s Lopsided View of Fees Must Fall
South African students have confronted us with a range of political, economic and intellectual questions to be answered – not merely posed a problem that needs to be managed.
How do you write about a flawed film?
The vivid cinematography of “Waithira,” a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.
For us, Zimbabweans, South Africa is home
We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.
Biafra as memoir
By volume, the most significant body of writing on Biafra is neither history nor fiction, but memoir.
South Africa’s Very Own David Brooks
Jonathan Jansen channels the worst versions of average center right American ideas in debates about transforming South African universities.
No education crisis wasted
The “business model” of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa’s education problems, comes under scrutiny.
Somalia, People of Football
A film about the separate, and often connected, journeys of two Somali footballers, also refugees, to make it as footballers.
Nigerians: Gays, as long as they’re not our gays, are okay
Reflecting on the April 2017 visit of openly gay CNN business news presenter Richard Quest to Nigeria.
Gag rules and global partnerships
Over the past fifteen years, global health has emerged as one of the most prominent faces of American influence in Africa.
African military partnerships in the age of the ‘enemy disease’
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.
Against the romance of study abroad
Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”
Nationhood and the struggle for Biafra
Since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by the operatives of the Nigerian
#Fallism as public pedagogy
Fallists draw on scholars and activists like Fanon and Biko, and concepts like intersectionality, to weave together a decolonial framework.
Friends in a Ship
“It was a lifetime performance of lies and false living. I played the role of a homophobic straight guy while I craved to hold the hands of a guy. I worshipped at the temple of homophobes while I prayed for a man to call my own.”
Decolonizing philosophy
We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent’s universities.
Museums as Sites of Struggle
The exhibition ‘Goede Hoop: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600,’ in Amsterdam, is like making your way through a hall of mirrors.
Africans want in on Virtual Reality
New artistic possibilities are boundless for 360° film as the technology becomes more accessible.
Behind the new Gulf crisis is same old order
The Gulf States and Israel benefit tremendously from the authoritarian order that has kept the region underdeveloped and unfree for decades.
Weekend Special No.2034
Twitter a while back: 'Robert Mugabe is old enough to be Muhammadu Buhari's father.' Robert Mugabe,