An archive for historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014)
“We know… but we don’t know.” These were words that we heard often from Jeff Guy
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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 Books of 2014
Christmas is coming, and like the German Bundesliga we're going to be taking a wee break on
Slave Biographies
Last week, I discussed the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and two of its offshoot projects, the African
Decolonising white Berlin
The myth of an all-white, Christian German society largely persists. So does the idea that anyone
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa’s second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
The Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Can an African language literature prize be inherently Pan-African?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Philippe Lacôte
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.
Why we can’t breathe
The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.
Feel the Rainbow
Designer Akosua Afriye-Kumi: “A lot of designers take or find inspiration from Africa, I want to do the same but actually be in Africa doing it.”
A New Kind of Romance
Nigerian publisher: it is time the continent’s consumer class gets romance lit that is entertaining and reflect the complexity of their lives.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don’t Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
When I was first given the opportunity to write this weekly series, I reached out to
Black death and revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students
The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France’s former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Ruhorahoza wished he made “Sans Soleil” by Chris Marker: “The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free.”
The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
The A to Z of Kenyan Twitter
"Twitter is going to change Kenya!” I declared in my presentation. We’d just set up a