COVID-19 and teacher education in rural Ghana
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.
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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.
Pandemic in the city
How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Omar Blondin Diop’s revolution in Senegal
In 1973, Senegalese activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop died in a Senegalese prison. His life helps reveal what revolutionary politics look like in a neocolonial state.
Kutafuta mapinduzi Senegal
Maisha ya mwanaharakati na msanii wa Senegal Omar Blondin Diop yatasaidia kutoa mtazamo wa jinsi siasa za kiukombozi zilivyo katika ukoloni mamboleo.
The universal right to breathe
Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?
The roots album that never got made
The “World Music” record industry has a lot to do with what kinds of reggae music we get to hear and consume.
The violence within us
Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.
Representing northern Ghana
A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.
Can a virus accelerate change in Africa?
African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?
Reading List: Cara Moyer-Duncan
Media scholar Cara Moyer-Duncan wrote a book about postapartheid South Africa. Here she gives her book picks for our #ReadingList series.
The other Afropolitans
What it means to be a man and a feminist.
O ponto de ruptura
Iniciam nosso projecto sobre o capitalismo em Nairobi, perguntando: Será que já não existe um salário decente?
Janga la mfumo mpya wa ubepari
Tunaanza uchambuzi wetu kuhusu ubepari jijini Nairobi tukiuliza: Je, kuna kitu kama mshahara mzuri siku hizi?
The breaking point
We start our project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?
The brutal beauty of Morocco’s Soccer Ultras
Raja Casablanca’s fan clubs are well organized, politically active and occasionally violent.
Lockdown 2.0
What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?
Saturday mornings
Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city’s working class African immigrants.
Notes on post-revolutionary Sudan
The ghosts of our past mercilessly haunt our present.
Abolition across the Atlantic
Why are South Africans not in the streets against police brutality like Americans are? It has less to do with the internet or middle classes. South Africans are captured by punitive logics. Break that.
The Senghor Myth
Once you’ve exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.