How we tell stories about cities
We must not forget the everyday lived realities and struggles in vanished neighborhoods.
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A Hot Mess
Black women have no say in what is pretty considering it is the job of non-white women to dispel the standards of beauty, and white women to reinvent it.
Palestine Scores
European football officials may have missed it, but Palestine already scored several goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
Ghana’s Independence Era Through the Lens of S.K. Pobee
The photos below (click to enlarge), offering a glimpse into the joy and optimism of the
The political arrest of Bandile Mdlalose
Bandile is a giant of the Abahlali baseMjondolo social movement, which agitates for housing for poor, black people,
The rains down in Africa
Why is Toto's 'Africa," a song with ridiculous lyrics, so popular with everyone? It has to be the melody and the hook.
Weekend Music Break 56
Three South African videos to start with. Cape Town rapper Youngsta moves between the city’s neigbourhoods
What the Italian press said about Lampedusa
After the death of at least 130 Somalian and Eritrean migrants off the coast of the
The Jews of Africa
How some American Zionists make connections between Israel and Rwanda.
In Sudan, “freedom for my mum”
In Sudan, the numbers of women political prisoners are rising, largely because the numbers of women
Democracy is the Best Form of Democracy
Conceiving of the relationship between public space and positions of power as a hall of mirrors.
No wonder Winnie Mandela objected to this
The film "Winnie Mandela" is what happens when you combine bad history and bad filmmaking.