Who are Boko Haram, and how did they come to be?
This is currently Boko Haram’s structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
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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 hands played by themselves
Basil Breakey’s photographs serves as an important recording of South Africa jazz music in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Sonic Geography of Cartagena
The strong local identity of Colombia’s most African big city is slowly being erased. But not all its artists, especially musicians, are giving up without a fight.
A Short History of the Slave Trade in Nigeria
A public service as a response to Nigeria’s removal of history from its school curriculum
More than blankets, mountains and horse rides
The film “Forgotten Kingdom” has become one of the most powerful representations of Lesotho. Does it get it right?
Belonging—Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons.
The last space of cultural dynamism in Luanda’s baixa is no more
Angolans protest as the state threatens to tear down an historic building.
Films to fall asleep to
Are development agencies derailing the film industry in Tanzania?
The African Cake
Last week a bunch of smartly dressed activists, myself included, made a visit to the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) offices in London pretending to be representatives of large food corporations and offering them a cake in the shape of Africa. This, we said, was to celebrate the help that the UK government is giving to big business’s efforts to mount a new scramble for Africa. Watch what happened:
Chris Hani’s political legacy
Chris Hani should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Where were you when Chris Hani was killed?
Chris Hani, a prominent ANC and Communist Party leader, was murdered on April 10, 1993, by white racists. The writer remembers hearing the news.
The Edutainment Industrial-Complex
The ONE organization (it counts one of Warren Buffett's sons as well as Bono, Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleezza
Europeans ‘rescuing’ African art from obscurity again
For years Bisi Silva, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim and others have been active players in the art world. Why are they being written out of the story?
Jazz as Tradition in Cape Town
“Jazzing” on the Cape Flats, almost similar to salsa as developed in New York City. It’s the dominant sound of parties in Cape Town.
What’s it like to be Somali in Kenya
Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.
Boxing lesson
Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.
Old Money’s mothership is here to save us all
The musical groups perhaps setting the pace for a new idea of liberation for people of African descent in the Americas.
Weekend in Stellenbosch
The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa’s universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.
The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today’s post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.