Salif Keita’s incomparable call
The famed Malian musician celebrates his 70th birthday and 50 years in the industry in 2019.
The famed Malian musician celebrates his 70th birthday and 50 years in the industry in 2019.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Every time you project terror onto Somalis, remember to ask how we live in Mogadishu.
Why Venezuela’s turmoil and the Khashoggi crisis portend an even darker geopolitics of oil.
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.
The reality for Africans living in China's 'African City' contrast greatly with the way their governments and China's leaders interact.
In a heteronormative society like Nigeria, men are entitled to sex with any and all women.
African teachers organize themselves against privatization of public education. These academics are widespread in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
A remembrance for Father's Day.
Living in the city that hosted the 1884 conference where Western powers divided up Africa for themselves
Professor Sampie Terreblanche, who passed away at 84 on February 17, 2018, was one of South Africa's foremost political economists.
The elite compromise of the early 1990s emphatically excluded the possibility of a comprehensive redistribution policy.
The writer, a student in New York City, on the emotional experience of living the Zimbabwe #NotCoup in real time online and away from home.
Nostalgia for Gaddafi reflects a depressing understanding of African politics which rules that a dictator is better than a chaotic political void.
Mugabe was a neoliberal stooge up until the 2000s and far from being a Pan-Africanist hero sent his army to intervene in the most rapacious war in Africa's history in the Congo.
In Southern Africa, former liberation movements reclaim ownership over history and society not by seeking but by remaining in power.
“The sun never sets on the British empire.” The saying, commonly associated with the poet of
Faced with the uncertainty of the postapartheid world, my grandmother protects her children the same way she survived Apartheid: by making sure their papers are in order.
The Nobel Prize for Literature buzz around Ngugi’s wa Tiong'o's points to both his seminal contributions to African literature but also his work to kept the memory of Kenya’s divisive past alive.
For those not familiar with academic publishing, prominent peer-reviewed journals are not expected to publish garbage promoting colonialism.