The Mandelas at Harlem’s Africa Square
The Mandelas and Africa's place in African American politics and popular culture.
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Cape Town’s Inner Ugly
Patricia De Lille, one of South Africa's most popular post-apartheid politicians, claims she tried to redress spatial apartheid in Cape Town, but the legacy of her seven year run as mayor is one of violent forced removals and a refusal to upgrade informal settlements.
Student protests and the weakness of democracy in Ghana
Hyper-partisan politics and shallow journalism obscured the implications of the protests at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
The emperor has no clothes
South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.
Achille Mbembe’s Fanonian meditations
Mbembe’s 'Critique of Black Reason' is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.
Double jeopardy
The future looks terrifying for many US-based exiles from Mauritania—facing deportation to Africa's modern "slave nation" under Trump's monstrous ICE.
Resources and rape: The DRC’s (toxic) discursive complex
On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
‘Their champagne party will end’
In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.
The architects of fantasy
Among the Ga people of Ghana, there's more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.
Only the soil can free us
Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.
Transitional justice’s glass ceiling
Can transitional justice initiatives achieve their ambitious agenda of combatting gender based violence?
Postcolonial theory and the strong arm of identity
The major problem with the term "decolonization" is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.