Being young and African in elite America
A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.
A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.
In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.
Does Afrobeats come from the continent or the diaspora. This reviewer of a new book on the genre's history and rapid takeover of our airwaves and playlists, argues we need to center Africa more.
By looking through the lenses of Brussels’ diverse youth, 'The Porters' questions the ways Belgium fails to deal with its colonial past.
For many African immigrants in the United States, being seen as Black doesn’t necessarily equate to seeing oneself as Black.
The reality of any society, any nation, and of our world, is much messier than picking a soccer team.
It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.
From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.
The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.
The harrowing execution of Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese refugee in Michigan, and the unfulfilled promise of resettlement in America.
A photo essay on Masjid Tajul Huda, a mostly West African mosque in the Bronx, New York.
Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.
Angolans have made themselves in and out of Angola, in conversation with the world; they carry with them the deep look of permanent uncertainty. But also take with them the smile of resistance.
Ekwa Msangi, realizadora Tanzaniana-Americana, mostra a história de muitos imigrantes com a experiência de uma família angolana de imigração.
In the shadow of the US election, this Tuesday on AIAC Talk, we talk African immigration to the United States with Abraham Zere and Aya Saed.
Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city's working class African immigrants.
The future looks terrifying for many US-based exiles from Mauritania—facing deportation to Africa's modern "slave nation" under Trump's monstrous ICE.
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.
Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.
The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.