Why is this the story being told now?
The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.
The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.
Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.
Though Hall's work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
This post, is the first in a new occasional series for Africa Is A Country; Campus
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
The world watched U.S. tanks roll into Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, in a misguided attempt
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
In Terence Ranger, politics and history, nationalism and scholarship, intersected in ways rarely seen. Zimbabwe and Africa, will forever be in his debt.
Zimbabwean historian Terence Ranger (1929-2015) is no more. Ranger was central to the historiography of Rhodesian
Tanzanian foreign policy is now driven by “economic diplomacy;” as a result, its voice on Palestinian oppression has faded.
Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone's been in on the act.
It is important that the Netherlands' history of slavery gets anchored in Dutch history curriculums in the same way that the Second World War is.
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.
What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.
On Monday a new book on Malcolm X by the American intellectual and historian Manning Marable
Writer and journalist Gary Younge in a 2007 column in “The Nation”–that’s still worth repeating–on Black