No education crisis wasted
The “business model” of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa’s education problems, comes under scrutiny.
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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.
Somalia, People of Football
A film about the separate, and often connected, journeys of two Somali footballers, also refugees, to make it as footballers.
Nigerians: Gays, as long as they’re not our gays, are okay
Reflecting on the April 2017 visit of openly gay CNN business news presenter Richard Quest to Nigeria.
Gag rules and global partnerships
Over the past fifteen years, global health has emerged as one of the most prominent faces of American influence in Africa.
African military partnerships in the age of the ‘enemy disease’
Military-to-military relationships have become the dominant mode of U.S. engagement with the African continent, overwhelming cast as institutional partnerships.
Against the romance of study abroad
Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”
Nationhood and the struggle for Biafra
Since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by the operatives of the Nigerian
#Fallism as public pedagogy
Fallists draw on scholars and activists like Fanon and Biko, and concepts like intersectionality, to weave together a decolonial framework.
Friends in a Ship
“It was a lifetime performance of lies and false living. I played the role of a homophobic straight guy while I craved to hold the hands of a guy. I worshipped at the temple of homophobes while I prayed for a man to call my own.”
Decolonizing philosophy
We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent’s universities.
Museums as Sites of Struggle
The exhibition ‘Goede Hoop: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600,’ in Amsterdam, is like making your way through a hall of mirrors.
Africans want in on Virtual Reality
New artistic possibilities are boundless for 360° film as the technology becomes more accessible.
Behind the new Gulf crisis is same old order
The Gulf States and Israel benefit tremendously from the authoritarian order that has kept the region underdeveloped and unfree for decades.
Weekend Special No.2034
Twitter a while back: 'Robert Mugabe is old enough to be Muhammadu Buhari's father.' Robert Mugabe,
Abdullah Ibrahim’s ‘tawhid’
For Abdullah Ibrahim, who converted to Islam in 1968, the “most beautiful, potent aspect” of his faith is “the unity of things.”
Dakar’s African Renaissance
A Kenyan scientist wonders how Senegalese found ways to blend African spirituality with Islam.
Biafra as focal point for fresh perspectives of Nigeria
Igbo nationalist groups have the right to self-determine whether they want to be part of Nigeria or form their own independent republic.
James Baldwin on Film
The latest entry of the brilliance of James Baldwin on film, “I Am Not Your Negro,” lays bare the fiction and terror of race in American life.
The right to ‘eat’
Politics in many parts of Africa is often understood through a metaphor of eating – a
Happy Father’s Day
The Soweto Uprising, Tupac, Walter Rodney, Jeremy Corbyn, Latin American telenovelas, etcetera, all part of this week’s Weekend Special.