We are all potential advocates
Director Shameela Seedat’s film about trainee lawyers provides a sort of celebration of youth on this continent and a vision of the next generation of Africans.
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Julie MacArthur
Julie MacArthur wrote "Cartography and the Political Imagination" (2016), and edited " Dedan Kimathi on Trial" (2017), both published by Ohio University Press.
Fractured dreams: The life of a Libyan exile
Muammar Gaddafi occupies a contested space in the histories of postcolonial Africa. What about his Libyan opponents?
Utopias, joy, and the law
The director of Kenyan film ‘Rafiki’ discusses leading the struggle against state sponsored censorship in Kenya right now.
A politics of nuisance
Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.
The hunt for (the trial of) Dedan Kimathi
Kimati’s image has long stood in, symbolically, for the ideals and lost hopes of revolutionary decolonization in Kenya.