South Sudan: the second time as tragic farce
The largest South Sudanese rebel movement is now in a leadership dispute proving more pernicious than Khartoum’s counter-insurgency strategies.
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The Namibian debate on German reparations
There are Namibians, including Black Namibians, who resist fully addressing the genocide.
Biafra in the film archives
What personal and collective memory is evoked when we encounter films from a historical period?
A man of the Namibian people
Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, who died at 92 on 9 June 2017, was one of the founders of Namibia's modern liberation movement that led the fight for political independence.
What happens to football dreams when they die
For the Star Boys, a West-African performance collective based in Antwerp, Belgium, the dream of playing professional football in Europe found its revival in theatre.
The Biafran Immigrant
The playwright Mfoniso Udofia is trying to debunk the “typical” understanding of Africa, and specifically Nigeria, in her work.
My favorite images: Magee McIlvaine
My photographic work is and always has been deeply personal to me. The majority of my childhood
The best hope for Liberian children
Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to for-profits from the United States?
Subverting the reified status of whiteness
What's missing from feminist readings of Nollywood romantic comedy 'Isoken' are readings that gets at the film's racial politics.
Jonathan Jansen’s Lopsided View of Fees Must Fall
South African students have confronted us with a range of political, economic and intellectual questions to be answered – not merely posed a problem that needs to be managed.
How do you write about a flawed film?
The vivid cinematography of "Waithira," a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.
For us, Zimbabweans, South Africa is home
We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.