Black skin, white ally
The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
The US and France backs Cameroon’s reign of terror
When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?
Archiving Addis Ababa
Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.
Why governance will go from bad to worse in Zimbabwe
Recent events reveal the Mnangagwa administration in Zimbabwe will extend, if not intensify, the kleptocracy, corruption and repression of the Mugabe regime.
A tribute to Ron Dellums, radical
Former US Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who passed away recently, played a leading role in the global fight against South African Apartheid in the 1980s.
The Nigerian way
The feature film, ‘Kasala,’ feels like a documentary film about the Nigerian condition and appeals to anyone who has ever been poor.
Time traveling with Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango has been here for centuries, and he ain’t goin’ away any time soon.
The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
Bring Back Our History
Everyone but the Chibok girls–subjects of #BringBackOurGirls–and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.
Expropriation without compensation? Ask the British.
On the eve of Zimbabwe’s elections, it’s worth reflecting on the British government’s expropriation of Southern Rhodesia, and the mark that act left on the country 100 years later.
A Black queen in the Seattle Reign
Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women’s team.
Back in the USSR
In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.
This is Congo
The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.
Thirty years after Cuito Cuanavale
A series of photos documenting the contemporary state of the site of perhaps the most decisive battle in the liberation of Southern Africa.
Pogbacité
Is France’s World Cup championship team a bellwether for France’s political future?
In Langa with Louis Moholo-Moholo
Free jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo comes home to his childhood home in Cape Town, carrying the spirit of his generation.
The Story of Priya Ramrakha
Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.
All you need to know about Ethiopia and Eritrea’s rapprochement
The pace of rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, longtime foes who have been in deadlock for the last 20 years, changes quickly. It is hard to keep up.
Everything ends with a song
The author, French: “When the game is over in Russia, I’ll go play another at the field down the street. I’ll find a song to sing on the way.”
The Respectable French
The 2010 World Cup was tumultuous for France; both an athletic failure and a site of social conflict. The French Football Federation doesn’t want to repeat it.