The struggle for moral authority in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
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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 Trump Card
Denis Sassou Nguesso’s embarrassing attempt to ingratiate himself to Donald Trump.
The year of Elaine Salo
Elaine Salo, who died on August 13, 2016, had done the hard work of liberation and engaged head-on with the limits and promises of the new South Africa.
The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
The film ‘Guangzhou Dream Factory” is a rich account of the complexities of living in China as an African migrant.
The armed conflict lurking in the countryside
The protests against Congolese President Joseph Kabila in cities like Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, only reveal part
Africa makes us look better
For the author, the “us” are the thousands of Euro-American expatriates in Kenya, including herself.
Yahya Jammeh’s tribalism
How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.
Kenya’s greatest virtue
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?
The Fourth Way
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, knows young people in Congo want him gone.
Give us your money
With all the excitement around us joining Jacobin, we were a bit worried that the fundraising
Our Subjective List of The Best Books of 2016
We asked our editorial group, some contributors and friends to let us know what they would rate as their best hardcover they read this calendar year.
Weekend Music Break No.101
It's the last music break of the year, and we leave 2016 with the 101st edition.
Making Europe White… Again
Zygmunt Bauman, the renowned Polish sociologist, calls them the emergent precariat. Shaken by the false promises
Kabila’s impasse
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.
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What happens in the DRC after December 19th
The presidential term of Joseph Kabila, in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2001,
“I will become a straight girl”
Almost four out of five men in South Africa surveyed had raped their first victim before the age of twenty.
The grapes of wrath
“For me personally, it seems as if modern day slavery is practiced on many farms, and
Inheritances of our fathers
History reminds us that the past is not something that can or should be left behind. Rather, we are morally obliged to keep reflecting on them.
Memory of the Present
Dominant culture in South Africa benignly recall slavery as part of a vaguely picturesque past that left us with beautiful colonial houses, award-winning wines and tourism.