Punished for being African
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
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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.
Peace deployed as a weapon in Angola
In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.
Swaziland’s Bushfire
The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Why would you only watch Canada at Canada’s World Cup?
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a
Time of the pathetic hero
Andrew Miller's a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer
In Praise of Defeat
The only safe thing to talk about in Eritrea, is football. Even the President watches football and is a public Arsenal fan.
The Veneers of Freedom
Why were Kenyans tweeting #52YearsofSufferinginNEP on this year’s Independence Day?
Angolan ‘justice’ in a Portuguese slave house
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques — an opponent of state corruption in Angola — is being heard in a former slave house.
Decolonizing the University
What to do with the universities South Africa inherited from the violences of Apartheid.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #11
Africa is a Radio has a Football (is a Country) focus this week. Things have been
The African Champions League Final
The Juventus team of Ghana’s Kwadwo Asamoah, Italy’s Angelo Ogbonna and the French pair Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba.
Weekend Music Break No.76
We took a break last week, but we're back experimenting with a new format. This Weekend's Music
Are corrupt Africans really ruining FIFA?
Of course football administrators in predominantly white countries that aren’t Africa have no interest at all in “looking after” their families.
Was the German composer Beethoven, African?
There’s even an album to advance this argument: “Beethoven Was African: Polyrhythmic Piano Sonatas.”
The type of genuine player the world needs to look to
Africa’s representatives at the 2015 Women’s World Cup are Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria. The latter’s chances depends a lot on Asisat Oshoala’s form.
What would a Hillary Clinton win mean for Africa?
Ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
Cape Town is Three Countries: Curatorship in times of load shedding
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
The NBA comes to Africa
An interview with the National Basketball Association’s Vice President in charge of international affairs, Amadou Gallo Fall, about the NBA’s plans for Africa.
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, ‘Guantanamo Diary’ is an exception about America’s ‘War on Terror’: an account of torture and terror by one its victims.