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.
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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?