
Is your mobile phone company seeing like a state?
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
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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.

How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.

On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro passed away. To many Africans Fidel was a hero, playing a central role in their liberation from colonialism.

Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.

“White person!,” people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan.”

The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

What is the death of a pregnant informal fish seller in Dakar to the suffering of sweatshop workers in Bangladesh or refugees at the borders of Europe?

All sorts of countercultural, even radical signifiers have been ransacked of their meaning in Zimbabwe.

The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.

Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.

In his memoir, the sociologist Steve Howard writes about experiencing Ramadan in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

What does it say about a country that could elect such an unsavory character?


We asked a group of experts–journalists, academics and an architect–a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?

Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara.

The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.


Drogba became one of the most famous footballers of his generation thanks to his time at Chelsea, but he never won a major tournament for his national team.


What can we do for ‘the worst place in the world’? Surely this play in London, is not the thing.

The possibilities and limitations of the ICC to contribute to our collective struggles and how we conceive of justice itself.