Singer Jojo Abot Speaks the Heart’s Burdens Through Music
In a world dominated by social injustice, it’s uplifting to find someone whose creative essence is
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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 limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
The violation of Genoveva Añonma
Football officials are supposed to be advocates for the beautiful game and for footballers – irrespective of gender. But the treatment of female players with regard to gender testing is deplorable.
The Winterton Collection
I absolutely love photography. This might be obvious from some of the choices I've made for
African Cup of Nations memories
We’ve teamed up with brand new soccer kit supplier AMS (like them on Facebook) to give you the chance to win a Sierra Leone or South Sudan kit.
The Baddest
Hipster’s Don’t Dance’s Top 10 UK-based Afrobeats Tunes of 2014.
A homage to historian Terence Ranger
In Terence Ranger, politics and history, nationalism and scholarship, intersected in ways rarely seen. Zimbabwe and Africa, will forever be in his debt.
The first and only woman to be charged by the ICC
The trials and tribulations of Cote d’Ivoire’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
World War I in Africa
In honor of the centenary of the Great War, Jacques Enaudeau and Kathleen Bomani set out
White Lives Matter
An angry and desperate review of the five phases of blackness: innocence and oblivion, confusion, awakening and shame, anger, and survival.
The Chikungunya land of Latin America
A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.
The shoulders that carried Ebola’s weight
Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Vampire teeth
Annual review: Hipsters Don’t Dance’s “Top 10 African-Caribbean Collaborations” of 2014
Havana and Washington: On African Time?
Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?
Historian Terence Ranger is no more
Zimbabwean historian Terence Ranger (1929-2015) is no more. Ranger was central to the historiography of Rhodesian
Race, class and domestic work in Latin America
The author on how she developed consciousness about the centrality of domestic work in her native Colombia and further afield
Some observations on race and security in South Africa
The writer, an anthropologist, gets a quick lesson on race and crime on a visit to South Africa.
Steven George Gerrard: A Man Apart
The remarkable thing about Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s reserve is that it never prevents him from protecting those whom he leads.
Dutch elites and blackface
Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.
Who is Dulcie September?
The author stars as the famed South African activist in a new play. Dulcie September was murdered by a conspiracy of South African and French death squads.