Revisiting the Brixton struggle
Leila Hassan and Farouk Dhondy worked at the UK publication Race Today that chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.
Leila Hassan and Farouk Dhondy worked at the UK publication Race Today that chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.
Boris Johnson is in the running for UK Prime Ministers. The UK Conservative Party is particularly fond of Britian's colonial past, but Johnson usually outdoes himself in this regard.
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.
Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.
Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
The Dutch state and its economy are profiting generously from their annual blackface partay.
An African refugee in Britain seeks assistance. He is thrown behind bars, often shackled. He fasts in protest. He is shackled and shipped out on the next charter flight.
Britain's secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
A review of UK media coverage of the viral politics of the misguided #Kony2012 social media campaign.
Can a belief be condemned as immoral? Or must we accept cultural difference, and merely condemn the acts that follow as a consequence?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
This coming Friday Maal and British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah will begin their UK tour of “Tales
I needed an excuse to post that picture and this audio since. Via David Lane.
Africa's first Nobel literature laureate is accused of Islamophobia. It is not his first time.