What is the university for?
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #13
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from
Weekend Music Break No.87
Weekend is here so that means it's time for another music break! If there's any theme
The Community Video Education Trust
A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.
Robert Sobukwe’s Children
The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.
The tyranny of distance, up close
The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.
Maghreb Lyon
The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.
Mother of the Nation
No victory was achieved for the #Feesmustfall campaign last Friday. Let’s be clear about that. No fees have
Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala’s new president, is basically a proxy for the country’s very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.
The Permanent Exile
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.
Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
“Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation” lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.
Archiving black South African LGBTQI
Muholi on inspirations: “Audre Lorde will always be my favorite because she informed a lot of us, gave us a new way of thinking.”
We Are Called Those Who Have Come
The fearlessness with which South African students confront their society’s contradictions, suggests much more than fees may fall.
A locally-driven vision of African identity and space
Using Instagram, photographer Fati Abubakar wants to take us beyond Boko Haram in Nigeria’s Borno State.
Uganda, now you have touched the women… again!
In April 2012, Ingrid Turinawe, then leader of Uganda’s Forum for Democratic Change Women’s League, was
The Illusion of South American Unity
Real regional integration would mean both the end of trade barriers and the local subsidies that distort trade flows and prevent competition.
The student uprisings in South Africa
Demands for racial justice and concerns about economic inequality are coming together in a powerful call for change that cannot be ignored or easily dismissed.
Nigeria outsources policing of corruption
Two weeks ago, on October 6th, Nigeria’s former oil minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, was arrested in London