Travelling while black
It takes a while to blink the light out of my eyes. I'm sitting in the
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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 Italian Joseph Conrad
Alessandro Spina produced one of the greatest indictments against colonialism and jingoism, as well as a tribute to the Mediterranean’s cosmopolitanism.
The Afropeans are Coming
We asked the participants at a symposium in Austria on European Africans to reflect on what an Afropean is. We edited it into a short video.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Taghreed Elsanhouri
Taghreed Elsanhouri directed the first Sudanese film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival,
Letter to Kenya
How much longer must we take everything with a pinch of salt or search for ways to laugh through the pain in our hearts? How much of our personal freedom and security do we have to sacrifice?
The Contemporary Mark of Assata Shakur
The Black American activist’s relevance for today’s generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
To Live and Die with Ebola in Liberia
The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.
Necolonialism and Ebola
Why are affected West African states so spectacularly ill-prepared to deal with Ebola?
‘This Ewe Boy’
New video for 'Hope,' by Ghanaian rapper Abladzo Kwame, off his EP 'This Ewe Boy.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEO2zhHys2I&feature=youtu.be
Africa is a Radio: Epsiode #5
Africa is a Radio went on break last month along with Africa is a Country, so
What is the matter with … TB Joshua
T.B. Joshua proffers a version of American tele-evangelism’s empty promises to African masses, as nationalism and liberation politics lose their shine.
Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Before
The Sudanese film, “Beats of the Antonov,” explores the connections between the bombs of oppression and the resilience of culture.
What Binyavanga thinks of the Caine Prize
The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.
The Resurrection of Nat Nakasa
“This is Simply a Personal Statement from Me to You” On August 18th I attended the
The Economist has a slavery problem
To repeat: The Economist magazine has had a “Slavery Problem” since 1843.
What’s the matter with … R.W. Johnson
And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?
What would Mandela do
The South African struggle suggests that sports boycotts are effective at forcing change. For white South Africans (and their apologists), sporting isolation was a bitter pill to swallow.
Prayer in the time of Ebola
in places like Lagos where the healthcare system is inadequate and health workers constantly on strike, people rely on prayer.
Telling “the African story”
We often hear political and business leaders and Africanists talk about the need to "tell the African
The Naked Woman on Mandela Square
Her nudity wakes us up, either in protest or solidarity to the fact that everything is not okay in South Africa.