Cricket in America
The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.
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The “wisdoms” of Akon
When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon's reactionary's views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.
Fela Kuti on Film
Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?
Belgium lives outside history
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
Sex and the City meets Americanah
"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Happy Africans
Pharrell Williams's pop hit, "Happy," is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?
Homophobia and hatred in Cameroon
Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.
Breaking down self-imposed borders
Ten Harlem-based artists and ten Columbia University students work together for the month-long exhibition, "Bridging Boundaries: Redefining Diaspora."
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.