Africa holds up a mirror to India
Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.
Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
Working-class men try unsuccessfully to integrate themselves into new economies in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Mrinal Sen.
Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.
The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.
The Indian activist ES Reddy led the fight against South African apartheid at the UN. More importantly, his life reflected the best of left internationalism.
Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.
In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” The saying, commonly associated with the poet of
Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.
African political elites will continue to use the spoils of "development" and aid to serve their personal interests.
Under Modi, Africa will not just be a continent where India expands its economic footprint, but also builds, protects and projects its power.
For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.
Interview with curators Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg Center) and Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum) about the African presence in Western and Asian art.
The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The key question: Are you black? Worry. It is almost always your fault.
Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.
Who would guess that a little over a decade ago Africa was mostly described as "the hopeless continent"?
On December 3, in the Indian capital of Delhi, five men gang-raped a 24-year-old Rwandan woman.