What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe’s legacy?
Politics
The making of Mugabe’s intolerance
How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on Mugabe’s seemingly contradictory roles as freedom fighting anti-colonial nationalist, followed by a dictatorial, repressive presidency.
It’s time to talk prison abolition in South Africa
Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? For the vast majority of the country’s history, including now, the 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.
We all the way live
Live TV broadcasts of political rallies, funerals and press conferences, may be more decisive than social media in shaping mass debate in South Africa.
The emptiness of an ending
With Mugabe’s death, might there be space for a new self-definition as a nation in Zimbabwe, as a broad family of nationals, with a shared national project?
Robert Mugabe
What if postcolonial regimes use stories of your past to justify their rule?
The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.
The lessons from Zimbabwe’s land reform for its neighbors
At this early stage, there is little to suggest that South Africa will follow the same path as Zimbabwe.
Why do so many Western Leftists defend Robert Mugabe?
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.
On Grace Mugabe: Coups, phalluses, and what is being defended
Robert Mugabe, a man known for his eloquence, was brought down by a speech. It wasn’t his own. Instead, what
Culture
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
The white hunter
Outrage against arrogant hunters is not enough. Wildlife conservation requires rethinking.
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
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.
Okocha, love you. Pass Maradona!
The midfielder Augustine “Jay Jay” Okocha is arguably one of Nigeria’s best men’s football players ever. It is his birthday today, August 14th.