The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Politics
Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid's last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
Economics has an Africa problem
There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.
Party like its 1999
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
Football, Disappearances and Disasters in Haiti
The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens's football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti's US's supported dictatorship.
The Black Messiah
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
The news from South Africa
...or the constant deferral of reconciliation
Just one long war
The US is re-upping its failed "war on drugs" in Central America. The spin is they will fight "violence and poverty." This won't end well.
Many Terence Rangers
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
Africa Cup of Nations Memories
Watchiing the African Cup of Nations before the era of internet streams and mass football broadcasting in North America.
El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s defiant struggle for justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students
Do critiques of representation make a real difference?
The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.
Africa Cup of Nations Memories: When Sudan scored their first AFCON goal in 32 years
Sudan had entered AFCON 2012 with 23 home-based players, all playing in Sudan. It was the
Why would a Black American root for Ghana’s soccer team over USA?
This post on The Outer Drive got me thinking about blackness and football, but first and
Security Killings: American Police Violence, from Ferguson to Nairobi
The world watched U.S. tanks roll into Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, in a misguided attempt
Perpetrator or Victim?
A decade after the ICC opened its investigation in northern Uganda, it lays its hands on a suspect in that conflict: a former child soldier.
How decisive is ethnicity and regionalism in Zambian electoral politics?
Results from Zambia’s presidential by-election held on 20th January 2015 are now clear. They do show
The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
African Cup of Nations memories
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The Baddest
Hipster's Don't Dance's Top 10 UK-based Afrobeats Tunes of 2014.