Nicholas Kristof Discovers Angola
This is now our eleventh piece on Nicholas Kristof. This needs to end. He has to stop somehow.
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Africanizing Technology
The photographic record of an academic conference which key question was "How is technology rooted in a longer history of African experiences?"
Rhodes Must Fall Everywhere
Aside from the heady enthusiasm of campus politics, is there any variable that unites these seemingly disparate campus struggles and what can they learn from one another?
The statue in the garbage bag
Watch: South Africa's 'born frees' gag on the rainbow nation pill they've been fed for the past 21 years.
The Myth of the New South Africa
In South Africa, the old is alive and well and surging alongside everything that is trying to be new.
Does the Development Industry really need new clothes?
One critical problem of the new combined agenda of agencies like the UN or World Bank is that their goals lack a clear rationale on what they'll accomplish and how.
Photo of the Day: Irony arrives to Brazil
In today’s news, the mainstream Brazilian media try their hardest to illustrate that protests against, and calls for
What are you scared about, Joseph Kabila
Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dear Grammy Awards: A Letter From a Colombian Musician
Pedro Ojeda is a Colombian musician, member of many influential bands, such as Los Pirañas, Romperayo,
Britain’s Racist Election
In Britain in 2015, racism is being used to dismantle the consensus on the welfare state, and to undo the greatest achievement of British democracy.
Why the US should seek closer cooperation with Iran in the fight against Boko Haram
Richard Nixon visited Mao’s Zedong’s China 43 years ago, from 21 to 28 February 1972. His stay
Invisible labor in plain sight
South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.
The wounded buffalo
President Filipe Nyusi's government will be more remembered for preventing protests by an increasingly disenfranchised Mozambican public.
White settler states and secret police forces
How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.
Eu Sou Cistac
What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Dr. Pierre Messmer, France’s Dirty War General
In the late nineteen-fifties, a brutal but secret war unfolded between French colonial authorities and the
The heart of whiteness, South African edition
We don't think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.
Is This the Maturation of Politics in Lesotho?
Development, broadly defined, has dominated Lesotho’s political discourse throughout its nearly 50 years of independence. This
In the Name of Africa
For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.
Obroni, a History
Most Ghanaians think "obroni" means "white person" or "foreigner", but it stems from the Akan phrase "abro nipa" meaning "wicked person."