The aesthetics of nostalgia
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
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Anakwa Dwamena
Anakwa Dwamena is a writer based in Accra, Ghana.
Kwame Nkrumah today
New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.
Africans and the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.
Moon people
In the 50th year since humans first landed on the moon, we take you back to Zambia’s attempt to achieve that feat.
Groundings with Walter Rodney
On the 50th anniversary of Walter Rodney’s The Groundings With My Brothers, a small group of scholars on the impacts of Rodney on their intellectual development and political commitments.
The boundaries of the Global African Diaspora
New York City’s Caribbean Cultural Center seeks to “document and present the creative genius of African Diaspora cultures.”
A record Congo doesn’t want
More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Emmanuel Macron’s Twitter fingers
The stuff we couldn’t cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.
Thomas Sankara Boulevard
Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.
Robert Mugabe’s hostage face
And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.
The new, African magazine — for us, by us
Interview with Emmanuel Iduma, co-founder of Saraba magazine.
African leaders’ tax returns
The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.
African borders don’t stop African people
Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.
Why is the US army in Niger
Including another worrying thread of the American “war on terror” on the continent: the training of vigilantes.
East German-Africans
Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.
King George
Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country’s next president.
The world of photographer Osaretin Ugiagbe
A Nigerian immigrant to the Bronx, New York, Osaretin Ugiagbe documents the lives of his friends and strangers on the streets.
The bad immigrants
Few immigrants make the connection between their immigration status and the potential for deportation if they came into contact with the criminal justice system.
When Ghanaians put their arms around New York City
Today, 30,000 of the 235,000 Ghanaian immigrants to the US call New York City home.
Power against Power in Ghana
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.