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Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Foreign support for governments that benefit privileged elites and their external backers perpetuate violence and instability. It won’t be any different for Latin American countries like Venezuela.
Political ‘tribalism’ has for far too long been seen as an African problem. It is also an American problem, reflecting parallel legacies of colonialism.
African teachers organize themselves against privatization of public education. These academics are widespread in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda.
After years of divide and rule by President Omar al-Bashir, the youth of Sudan have united to push him out.
The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.
If you want a prejudice to look respectable, put a number to it and compile an index. You can then rule the minds of many people.
What Sudan’s history of protest against authoritarianism can teach the current generation.
On xenophobia against Nigerians in Ghana.
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd’s killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
The family is the site of extremely violent incidents in South African society—particularly involving women and children. What can the state do?
Challenging the success narrative that masks the disruptive social impact of neoliberal transformation under General Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.
Zambia’s mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.
Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.
No primer aniversario do estreno do filme ‘Black Panther,’ re-publicamos o ensaio de Russell Rickford traducido em Português.
Constant attention to segregation in formerly white South African schools limits our understanding of how race works in the school system.
There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa’s history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers’ union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.
2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad’s first feature film, ‘Bye Bye Africa.’
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.