Wasila Tasi’u is fifteen years old and out of prison
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, was charged
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Vamba Sherif’s ‘Bound to Secrecy’ is masterful storytelling
In 2012, The Economist Magazine’s style blog, Prospero, featured an essay titled “War and Peace in
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
Weekend Music Break No.78
South Carolina and the island that Haitians and Dominicans share is on our minds this weekend, so
The stranger among you
How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.
Buika is the best
Earlier this week I was at the launch of a friend’s excellent book about music piracy.
The US nostalgia for racist regimes in Africa
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
A certain kind of Black
A meditation on Haiti and Charleston. Being Black, these days, means living in constant state of siege.
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Freedom, youth and remembrance
In the documentary "Remembered Futures" the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Dominican state and the country's elites make up a history of conflict with Haiti to justify the periodic deportation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.