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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Since 1999, Contreras has documented, via documentary films, radio programs and photographs, dramatic changes to the Sahara.
Nokutela Dube wasn’t just the wife of John Dube, one of the founders of the continent’s oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress.
Why should black players have the burden of calling out racism, while white players don’t feel compelled to do the same?
Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, “L’Afrique Est Un Pays,” as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.
The image of a benevolent, preternaturally anti-racist “good old Sweden,” spreading its perfect democracy around the world, is fiction.
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
Valerie June admires Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba and a Nigerian blues singer she once heard in her car, but can’t remember their name.
The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.
No, there’s is not a vigorous debate on blackface and racism in the Netherlands. Instead it’s the usual duplicity of Dutch liberals.
Racism against Somali Canadians is a real problem. It is present not only on the right, but the left as well.
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.
A new film makes the case that a combination of hip-hop, new media technology, globalization and youth energy inspired Y’en a Marre.
Stephen Keshi’s success as Nigeria’s national men’s soccer team coach, will perhaps encourage more African countries to look closer to home for coaching salvation.
What’s wrong with the ‘Africa’ journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like ‘The Spectator’ and ‘The Daily Mail.”
There is something out there that we can identify as “really” European or “really” African, is essentially what the ancestry testing industry is selling.