Asking for a friend
This week's 20 questions from our friend: Can Idris Elba's acting save the Netflix movie 'Beasts of
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
What do they know of cricket
White South African cricket writers should stop commenting on cricket as if the game is apolitical or the national team is still as all-white as when the country was first allowed back into international cricket.
The failure in understanding the Congo
The new documentary film, “We Will Win Peace,” skillfully debunks many myths behind conflict minerals in the Congo.
There is nothing to do in Bogotá
Festejo Pachone is a crowdfunded music estival in Bogotá, Colombia that disproves the perception of the city is culturally lacking.
A New Day in Côte d’Ivoire?
The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.
Beasts of No Nation and the child soldier movie genre
The film is doubly removed from the West Africa in which it was made and in whose name it claims to speak.
What is the university for?
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #13
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from
Weekend Music Break No.87
Weekend is here so that means it's time for another music break! If there's any theme
The Community Video Education Trust
A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.
Robert Sobukwe’s Children
The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.
The tyranny of distance, up close
The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.
Maghreb Lyon
The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.
Mother of the Nation
No victory was achieved for the #Feesmustfall campaign last Friday. Let’s be clear about that. No fees have
Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala’s new president, is basically a proxy for the country’s very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.
The Permanent Exile
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.
Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
“Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation” lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.
Archiving black South African LGBTQI
Muholi on inspirations: “Audre Lorde will always be my favorite because she informed a lot of us, gave us a new way of thinking.”