The African Summer Olympics
The highlights of the 2016 Rio Olympics, including why Kenyan athletes were not wearing matching outfits at the opening ceremony.
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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.
Still doing the right thing
It is eerie (and tragic) how relevant the themes of racial tension and structural violence of Spike Lee’s ‘Do the right thing’ still is–both in America and South Africa.
On Safari, Summer 2016 Edition
Don’t worry, we’ll cook up some stuff for the fall and we’ll be back on September 1. In the meantime, you can go potter around the website and catch up on our archive.
The Freetown Sound Edition
Blood Orange and Sampha are two London-raised artists with Sierra Leonean roots, currently making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Empire Strikes Back
Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.
Story of a South African Farm School
Events at South Africa’s oldest agricultural college become an object lesson in how mastery over language upholds mastery over land.
Fed up and not afraid
Anti-government protests in Zimbabwe face the risk of falling into obscurity – the unfortunate and all too common destination of many such movements.
Poetry as design
Collapsing the binaries hard-wired into the logic and narrative of “uber-gentrification;” the latter representing the conquest of science over art, technology over soul and innovation over old.
Africa’s austerity apocalypse
The rowing acceptance of what critics of structural adjustment programs have been arguing for decades, (seems to have had minimal impact on the IMF’s actions.
The Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
Anjan Sundaram’s Rwanda exists in an authoritarian bubble characterized by fear and repression.
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
What does Brexit mean for Africa?
The short answer: The UK doesn’t have the same influence on the continent that it did decades ago. And Brexit will be further proof of that.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #17
In the shadow of the Brexit vote, on this episode of Africa is a Radio, we
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali’s political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni’s work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
What African economies need: good, old fashioned industrial policy
In terms of economic development, most African countries are operating below the least developed country income
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
Weekend Music Break No.97
Here's another Music Break to soundtrack your weekend! This round up is the "other countries" edition with
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you’re not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
The Greatest Of All Time
The author, also named Muhammad, on what having a black hero meant during his childhood in Apartheid South Africa.