Speaking as one African to another
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?
The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.
Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?
'Les Éléphants' quarterfinal match against Mali is happening in Cote d’Ivoire’s second largest city. Can the place once ravaged by war be a site of national redemption once again?
Three dates, in particular, were turning points in touching the hearts of Ivorians.
Nigeria’s Labor Party lost its way when it abandoned socialism for social democracy. Still, it remains essential for the labor movement to be organized under a party of its own.
While some streets in Lagos bear the names of notable nationalist leaders and pioneering early Nigerians, less is known about the everyday social milieu in which they operated.
In this week's episode of the African Five-a-side podcast, we delve into how Guinea's first president, and our midfield destroyer, said "No" to France and "Yes" to football.
In 1975, seeing how a communist victory in Angola’s civil war would boost the morale of Vietnamese freedom fighters, Henry Kissinger wanted to plan a covert operation against the MPLA.
Morocco is one of the United States’ oldest allies, so when it occupied Western Sahara in 1975, the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people mattered little.
In the 1970s, Kissinger believed that the liberation of southern Africa from white-minority rule represented a Cold War setback.
The African Five-a side podcast continues to explore the stories of five African heads of state and their influence on football. This week, we introduce our striker.
A new film about American civil rights icon Bayard Rustin overlooks his later conservative turn, evident in his attitudes to anticolonial resistance in Africa.
It is often imagined that world opinion was always united in its opposition to apartheid in South Africa—it wasn’t. Today, global indifference to Palestine is changing too.
As the slaughter continues unabated in Gaza, it is abundantly clear that both the present and history are often written by the victors.
How an experimental periodical led by an individual editor thrived in Nasserist Cairo even though it never joined the canon of revolutionary print.
Up next in the African Five-a-side podcast, we name our central defender, and explain how Ghana's first president boycotted the 1966 FIFA World Cup and won two Afcons.
In the latest episode of the African five-a-side podcast, we name our goalkeeper.
If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.
Post-Colonialisms Today provides an antidote to Western-centric analysis of Africa in a special issue of 'Africa Development.'