Too deep for mere outrage
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The “right” of white South Africans to be racist and offensive
Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa’s defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron’s apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
A cure for the Dutch disease
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
The Legacy of the Algerian Revolution
One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is the idea that it is impossible to contemplate a future in which the rest of the world does not resemble Europe.
We are all Helen Zille
Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.
The New York Court and Namibia
Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
Germany’s Marshall Plan for Africa
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany’s ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa’s development.
The roots of the current crisis in South Africa
The ways in which state elites and the private sector have found ways to swindle the poor.
Was Mohandas Gandhi a racist?
Debates about Gandhi represents a deeper crisis about belonging, entitlement and exclusion in postcolonial Africa.
Where is the Central African Republic?
The Central African Republic has become shorthand for “failed postcolonial African state,” basically the prototype of a country in permanent crisis.
The Border Crossing
The unwelcome atmosphere for refugees from Africa in the United States, result in some of them risking their lives to get to neighboring Canada.
The second life of ‘Daughters of the Dust’
The classic film, first premiered in 1991, is making a comeback. Not least: Beyoncé’s visual album ‘Lemonade’ borrows liberally from Julie Dash’s film. Why is the film so influential?
The Kalahari cattle market
Land, landlessness and the German genocide of Namibians at the turn of the 20th century.
How to cover Eritrea
Eritrea has expelled all international correspondents and banned local private newspapers since 2001. One consequence is
More than a Weekend Special
African war criminals face The Hague. As for U.S. war criminals, they get to paint victims of their illegal wars—those whose bodies they broke into subjects of art.
Making Somalia great again
Xenophobia has emerged as a rare consistent and core aspect of President Trump’s foreign policy, directed
The uncompromising Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb’s fellow South African, JM Coetzee once wrote: “For years we have been waiting to see what the literature of post-apartheid South Africa will look like. Now Zoe Wicomb delivers the goods.”
How do we talk about rebel groups?
Seeking to interrogate unhelpful media (and official) narratives that permeate everyday discourse and obscure the truth about these terrorist organizations is important.