The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.
Politics
The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.'s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country's Black communities.
Belgium lives outside history
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
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.
Was Sherlock Holmes a racist?
The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Leather from Human Skin
In the 1880s, in Philadelphia, "birthplace of America," some white locals used the skin of black people to make clothes, including shoes.
The Undemocratic Alliance
South Africa's second largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, exhibits the same paranoia as does the ruling party when it comes to dissent.
When Salazar met one of Lumumba’s murderers
António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese still remember him fondly.
Aimé Césaire on Europe
"At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler."
Instagramming Africa
An interview with Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, founders of the Instagram project, Everyday Africa.
Cape Town Pride’s Race Card
What happens when a corporate model of Pride is used to homogenize and silence those without privilege and power?
Cape Town’s Pretend Partnership
Cape Town's goals: designing a more tourist-friendly European City, while keeping the unwanted and unsightly on the other side of the mountain.
The passport that does not pass ports
The story of African migrants entering the Eurozone by sea is basically indecipherable as it is told in global and national media reports, because they are described only as helpless victims.