Biafra as memoir
By volume, the most significant body of writing on Biafra is neither history nor fiction, but memoir.
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South Africa’s Very Own David Brooks
Jonathan Jansen channels the worst versions of average center right American ideas in debates about transforming South African universities.
No education crisis wasted
The "business model" of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa's education problems, comes under scrutiny.
Somalia, People of Football
A film about the separate, and often connected, journeys of two Somali footballers, also refugees, to make it as footballers.
Nigerians: Gays, as long as they’re not our gays, are okay
Reflecting on the April 2017 visit of openly gay CNN business news presenter Richard Quest to Nigeria.
Gag rules and global partnerships
Over the past fifteen years, global health has emerged as one of the most prominent faces of American influence in Africa.
African military partnerships in the age of the ‘enemy disease’
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.
Against the romance of study abroad
Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”
Nationhood and the struggle for Biafra
Since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by the operatives of the Nigerian
#Fallism as public pedagogy
Fallists draw on scholars and activists like Fanon and Biko, and concepts like intersectionality, to weave together a decolonial framework.
Friends in a Ship
"It was a lifetime performance of lies and false living. I played the role of a homophobic straight guy while I craved to hold the hands of a guy. I worshipped at the temple of homophobes while I prayed for a man to call my own."
Decolonizing philosophy
We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent's universities.