Senegalese struggles play out on screen
The 24th edition of the New York African Film Festival put Senegal in the spotlight, featuring five short films from there.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Finding humor in Egypt’s tragedy
The rise and fall of television satire reflects the tragedy and disillusionment of the post-Morsi era.
Karel Schoeman, discovering the completed journey
The famous last paragraph of Karel Schoeman’s Another Country reads: Once, when he had just arrived
Le Pen vs. Macron: Implications for Africa
The real danger of an Emmanuel Macron victory is that, simply by virtue of not being Marine Le Pen, his policies will be treated as reasonable.
Algerian history as graphic novel
The story of Algeria’s brilliant, and heroic, footballers who played for independence.
Weekend Music Break No.107 – French presidential election edition
Paris, even though I've never lived there, has perhaps been more important in my formation as a
The Archive of Malian Photography
Preserving the photographs of five Malian photographers – including Mamadou Cissé and Malick Sidibé – online.
The African Union is now complete, but at what cost?
There is no doubt that the AU has the potential to be an important political actor but it faces severe limitations as a continental body.
The Indian-African alliance
Little attention is given to how Indians are viewed and treated not only on the African continent, but by peoples of African descent across the world.
The Spirit of Marikana
Marikana’s workers were active agents in controlling their own destinies in the midst of plutocratic mine-owners and “pocket trade unions.”
Kenneth Kaunda and the national question
Was the 27 years of Kaunda’s rule better for Zambians than the neoliberal governments that have ruled there since his departure in 1991?
Lessons from Kaundanomics
In Zambians’ hurry to get rid themselves of President Kenneth Kaunda, they lost their way in the process.
How France will eat itself
Police brutality mediates the relationship between French citizens of African descent and public and political institutions.
Flood the soundscape African
If the internet is the democratizing force that it is advertised to be, why shouldn’t you be able to contribute?
Temple run or stay?
For young people in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, there is a code for the perilous journey that they are making to Europe via Libya.
The danger of a single author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel, ‘Americanah,’ was the 2017 choice for the “One Book, One New York” campaign. Is the campaign necessarily a good thing?
The podcast for African Hip Hop
The Hip Hop African is a podcast series about African hip hop culture made by Howard University and George Washington University students.
The work of historical fiction
How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre?
Smashing patriarchy, one hip hop cypher at a time
‘Words of a Rebel Sistah’ wants to create a counter-culture in which women are liberated and all forms of oppression are eradicated.
All your faves are problematic
A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.