The perennial dictator
Rwanda’s constitution was changed in 2016 to allow Kagame to stay in power until 2034. He may govern forever. He also has his fans.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The West’s culpability in North Africa and the Middle East
There seems to be no limit to Europe’s and USA’s willingness to accept and even support
The liberating power of transgressive film genres
Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ should be seen as part of the Afrofuturism genre, which offers physical and mental liberation through supernatural or non-realistic means.
The great opus of “Small Bobby”
Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.
The values of David Goldblatt
Inseparable from the photographic images of world-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, are values. Values, like
The legacy of Biafra and the idea of being Nigerian
If being Nigerian meant anything, the presidency wouldn’t be rotated every eight years between the North and South or along tribal lines.
Zambians don’t deserve their politicians
Ugandans make for good soldiers-for-hire, Radiohead and aparthied, the state of Left American politics and other Weekend Specials.
The Leader Whose Time has Come
Jeremy Corbyn has led Britain’s Labour Party since 2015. There is no one else in British politics remotely like Corbyn.
Days of our lives: Kenya 2017 elections edition
Ordinary Kenyans are tired of the drama of party politics, and are hungry, job insecure and live under the threat of police bullets.
An economic strategy for The Gambia
This is the first opportunity for Gambians since independence in 1965 to have a broad-ranging public conversation on its future.
The benevolent great power
Opportunities like China’s One Belt One Road Initiative cannot simply be ignored, but should be engaged with critically.
Biafra–nostalgia as critique
How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?
Biafra and other ghosts
After nearly fifty years, the real impact of the Biafran war on Nigeria remains to be measured, free from political gamesmanship.
Masculinity and its Discontents
An in-depth look at the life and times of Winnie Madizikela-Mandela largely in her own words.
Weekend Music Break No.109 – Shameless self-promotion edition
Music Break! Welcome to your weekend. This week we have a bit of shameless self promotion,
The legacy of the first genocide of the 20th century
The mass murder of Nama and Herero by German colonists is now the subject of a documentary by the South African director, Vincent Moloi.
Mother in law
In the film, “Maman Colonelle,” a Congolese policewoman takes on ghosts of the past.
The African Who Wanted to Fly
When he was fifteen, the Gabonese Luc Bendza embarked on his life journey to China to
It wasn’t cricket
The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.
Blaxploitation, Italian style
The stories of the Afro-Italian, African-American, and Afro-Caribbean actors and crews who helped shape Italy’s film industry.