Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Ronald Reagan will be celebrated again today (his birthday is February 6, 1911) as a world statesman and champion of democracy (mostly by Republicans and Conservatives in the United States), but this not how people in the Third World experienced his tenure. Take Southern Africa (I grew up in South Africa) for instance. As I
Monday, February 27th, 2012
At the end of 2011 we contemplated asking you, dear reader, who you think was the most influential African thinker alive. We abandoned the idea for a while because of our thing against lists (except our end of...
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Late last year (in November) The New York Times ran a news piece on how the University of Cape Town is “now resplendently multiracial” despite the paper noting that white students still outnumber blacks “almost two to...
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
More than a year later these lines–written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction to Mahmood Mamdani’s “Saviors and Survivors,” a study of Darfur Now’s campaigns and the complex history of the Darfur conflict–is still...
Found Objects No. 15
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Music Break. Jolly Boys
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“THE TYPICAL AFRICAN EXPERIENCE”
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Why We Loved Warda
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The Hajj of the Revolution?
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London calling … to the faraway tow...
28 Feb 2012 at 9:00 am
Running with white people
22 Oct 2012 at 8:00 am
Africa is a Category
30 May 2012 at 9:00 am
Race politics in Ghana
18 Jan 2013 at 6:00 am
