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Africa Is a Country
The New South Africa’s original ’State Capture’
The elite compromise of the early 1990s emphatically excluded the possibility of a comprehensive redistribution policy.
Future so bright
By now, longtime readers are used to us taking a break at this time of the
Reading Frantz Fanon
Recently Fanon’s life work has received quite some attention from the academic world.
Give us your money
With all the excitement around us joining Jacobin, we were a bit worried that the fundraising
Africa Is a Country is joining Jacobin, and needs your help!
Dear readers, We are happy to announce today, that Africa is a Country is joining the Jacobin family
On Safari (July 2016)
While we would like to go full steam year round, the fact that we have day
Pan African Space Station Lands in New York City
Last November Chimurenga installed the Pan African Space Station at Performa 15 in New York, which
Africa is a Country’s Pan-African Space Station transmission archived
Last November, Africa is a Country teamed up with Chimurenga’s Pan African Space Station library-of-people installation at the Performa 15
On Safari
For all the serious stuff we wrote or filmed about, tweeted or Facebooked this year (we’ll
Africa is a Country will join the Pan African Space Station in New York City for the next 3 days
The Pan African Space Station (PASS) is an online music radio station and pop-up studio project of Chimurenga, a
Our 11 minute film capturing the energies of #FeesMustFall
The 11-minute film lets mostly women students from Rhodes University, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment
The dog days of summer
We’re taking our annual August break. We’ll be back after the American Labor Day holiday (they
Liberating ourselves from our liberators
Yes, April was the cruelest month in South Africa in recent history. In the mid weeks
Xenophobia and Border Imperialism
The recent wave of Afrophobic attacks on individuals deemed to be foreigners in downtown Durban and
“A malignant ‘nativism’ threatens post-apartheid democracy (in South Africa)”
Africa is a Country editorial board member Dan Magaziner and I published an oped on The New York
The Audacity of ‘Somali Studies’
The recent #CadaanStudies controversy that pitted a German anthropologist, Dr. Markus Hoehne, against young Somali researchers,
Can the Somali Speak? #CadaanStudies
When Oxford anthropologist I.M Lewis arrived in British Somaliland in 1955 for fieldwork that would lead
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Was Cecil Rhodes really an entrepreneurial genius? Zambia says no
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the students at the University of Cape Town
Open letter to 60 Minutes regarding its reporting on Africa
Dear Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of CBS 60 Minutes, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our