Woman of the Year
Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon’s repressive regime on the government’s actions: “Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”
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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.
Hip as Nationalist Project
Kuduru as an effort by politically connected Angolan elites to to package a fun and edgy dance born in Angola as soft power.
Redefining “Blackness”
An interview with Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Odutola.
We write what we like about Steve Biko
What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5f_KAkAIWI Kuduro pioneer Sebem (fresh out of prison; he was in for repeated traffic violations, from
God, too, takes the train to work
The author, also a photographer, on documenting South Africa’s “train churches.”
Rethinking mental illness
The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.
All the immigrants’ crimes in Italy
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
10 African films to watch out for, N°15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvF-sDfO_wU The Professor is a fiction film by Tunisian director Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud. Synopsis: Tunis 1977.
DJ Al Walser For President
Vice Magazine recently ran an interview with Al Walser, the DJ who nabbed a Grammy nomination for
Howls in a hurricane
For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.
Us and Them: Rape and Racism in India
On December 3, in the Indian capital of Delhi, five men gang-raped a 24-year-old Rwandan woman.
When Nelson Mandela goes
Yesterday we tweeted my friend Herman Wasserman's guide to the media on how to cover Nelson
Mozambique, the new frontier of global capitalism
What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?
Renouncing the Rhino
My beef with rhinos is more of a beef with white South Africa as a whole, who are all for saving rhinos but largely silent about inequality, poverty and institutional racism.
Six lessons from Ghana’s 2012 elections
Here’s on lesson from Ghana’s 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana
What was Strauss-Kahn wearing?
Euro-American media just can’t do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.
First Thoughts on Mali’s Second Coup
Mali’s interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.
Documentary: Fuelling Poverty in Nigeria
Kicking off with an introduction from Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the short documentary Fuelling Poverty amounts
Jared Thorne’s Black Folks
A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.