Sudanese director, Hajooj Kuka’s first feature film is an extremely important perspective on the contours of masculinity and the contradictions of war.
Politics
Is the nation state the best we got?
What lessons can we draw from 1960s and 1970s anticolonialism and pan-Africanism to rethink the nation state today?
Mugabe and the tradition to not speak ill of the dead
What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe’s legacy?
The making of Mugabe’s intolerance
How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s shaped Robert Mugabe.
It’s time to talk prison abolition in South Africa
Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.
The problem with microcredit in Africa
The microcredit industry is not a driver of development and poverty reduction, but quite the opposite: it is an “anti-developmental” intervention.
#ClimateStrike
The manifestation of climate injustice
Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, David S. Williams highlights the effects climate changes will have on communities in informal urban areas.
Waterless scars and pipe dreams in Nairobi
Poor Nairobi residents pay close to four times more for water that is much less clean, adequate or consistent.
Is the world ready to support a Green New Deal for Africa?
The Green New Deal is surely the United States’ most ambitious vision for climate justice to date. But the climate crisis is a global one and Africa is Ground Zero.
The question of our time
Ending the capitalist war against nature begins with eco-socialist perspectives and actions.
Culture
The beautyful ones
A personal reflection, by the daughter of a fighter in Zimbabwe’s Second Chiumurenga, on the death of President Robert Mugabe.
Why are we only learning to cook French food in Africa?
It’s easier to find African restaurants in New York City than it is in Cape Town, and culinary schools on the continent aren’t helping.
Moon people
On the 50th anniversary of humans landing on the moon, we take you back to Zambia’s attempt to achieve that feat.
Beyoncé and the Heart of Darkness
Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.
It is essential that governments think in terms of nation, not elites
A wide ranging interview with the celebrated Mozambican writer, Mia Cuoto
Before Fallism
The popular myth holds that most South African major resistance leaders come from its coastal regions. That's not been the case since the mid-1970s.
The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.
Sports
South African rugby’s race problems
What does the divergent fates of Springbok Eben Etzebeth and former coach Peter de Villiers say about the state of South African rugby?
Chester Williams and the making of modern South African rugby
Williams, the only black South African player in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, was a complex figure in complex times. He deserves to be remembered as such.
General Sisi’s empty seats
Football and neoliberal repression go together in Egypt.
Cake politics
The Rugby Championship, the World Cup, and Springbok politics in South Africa.
Beyond game day
Ultras or extreme fans of football clubs in Morocco use their collective identity to push for social and political demands.