Algeria’s bloodless coup
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s latest attempt to buy time and the way ahead for the three week-long popular uprising against his and the military's rule.
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Camp of the Saints
The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.
Namaste India
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.
Sarkodie and the politics for ‘freedom-making’
Hiplife artist Sarkodie has proposed that what Ghana needs is a dictatorship. This is not inconsistent with his politics, rooted in promoting male success and a patriarchal vision of liberation.
Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
Friday Black
The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.
A beautiful line of flight
If what has been happening in Algeria since February 22, 2019, may not be a revolution, it very much looks like it.
Ethiopia’s capitalist turn
In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.
An African film manifesto, forty years later
Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”
Against Zionism
The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.
The future of Senegalese politics?
Ousmane Sonko is 44 years old. He finished third in Senegal's March 2019 presidential election, energizing young voters.
Others made of kindness
Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.