No higher form of hypocrisy
Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word”?
Is it too late now to say sorry?
The IMF is now acknowledges its neoliberal agenda over the last couple of decades was a mistake. Should we take them at their word.
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1.
Weekend Music Break No.96
Back to our regularly scheduled music break for your weekend! Sometimes we have to remind ourselves
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead
Their voices, sharp and angry, shook me from my slumber. I didn’t know the language, but
Kenya’s Refugee “Problem”
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
Julius Malema’s Tailored Revolution
The color red, berets, and plain workers’ clothing have all become potent aesthetic symbols for South Africa’s EFF.
Intersectionality and Economics
Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.
The legacy of Albert Johanneson
Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.
Weekend Music Break No.95—Afro-Europe special!
Fresh of a trip to the UK and Germany, with stops in Afro-European strongholds of London
Monochrome Lagos
What would an alternative visual vocabulary through which to comprehend Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, look like?
Could Angola have prevented its yellow fever epidemic?
Angola is in the midst of a yellow fever outbreak that has caught worldwide attention. Between
The state of Nigeria’s live music industry
It is rare in much of Africa to see a festival line-up of both established and up and coming artists performing with a full band.
Postapartheid South Africa’s negative moment
The political theorist Achille Mbembe, from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, describes South Africa
Fantastically Corrupt
Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?
Africa’s Premier League
The story of Africa’s long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.
This film is about revolution
Who, ultimately, can speak with authority on recent events in Egypt, and, more importantly, how?