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
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
If Africa is a country, then Fidel Castro is one of our national heroes
On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro passed away. To many Africans Fidel was a hero, playing a central role in their liberation from colonialism.
The Nigerians are coming
Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.
Don’t call me Toubab
“White person!,” people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan.”
Many Missing Bodies
The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Do informal workers’ lives matter?
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?
Crisis and the meaning of money in Zimbabwe
All sorts of countercultural, even radical signifiers have been ransacked of their meaning in Zimbabwe.
The myth of Trump’s white working-class support
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.
Shutting Down Dadaab Endangers Refugees
Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.
Modern Muslims in Sudan
In his memoir, the sociologist Steve Howard writes about experiencing Ramadan in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Trump’s America
What does it say about a country that could elect such an unsavory character?
Feet & Cars
Growing up in 1980s Congo-Brazzaville there wasn’t a lot of technology going around. Computer games, cellphones
All you need to know about Ghana’s December 2016 elections
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?
The Match for Occupation
Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara.
Africans Migrate in Africa All the Time
The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.
Peculiar alliances
One of the most counterintuitive sights in the referendum on Colombia’s historic peace agreement between the
Who is Didier Drogba?
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.
Weekend Music Break No.100
Music Break number 100 is here!!! Let's celebrate the occasion with a playlist of classic African
Congo as Poverty Porn
What can we do for ‘the worst place in the world’? Surely this play in London, is not the thing.
Beyond the International Criminal Court
The possibilities and limitations of the ICC to contribute to our collective struggles and how we conceive of justice itself.