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Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.

Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.

Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.

Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.

What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.

Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like “African stories” is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.

In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.

The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.

Though Hall’s work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.

There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.

Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.


Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film “Timbuktu” complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.

Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.


The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.

A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country’s post-socialist modernity through dance.

The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens’s football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti’s US’s supported dictatorship.

John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.

…or the constant deferral of reconciliation