
The holy fire that burns in the home
An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of ‘Paths To Freedom’, a film on Namibian liberation.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of ‘Paths To Freedom’, a film on Namibian liberation.


Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.

This transition from conflict to post-conflict represents a different approach to solve the underlying causes that gave raise to Colombia’s violence.

Writing from afar plus writing with sun glasses that are heavily tainted with ideology is dangerous.

A list of articles to read, twitter accounts to follow, blogs to bookmarked to make sense of the ever evolving situation in Burkina Faso.


President Michel Kafando is back in charge in Burkina Faso, but now what?



In what is a victory for media freedom, a Mozambican judge rules it is “perfectly acceptable in a democracy” to criticize your leaders.

Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.


Our short film of the creator and star of “Awkward Black Girl,” Issa Rae, whose father is Senegalese and mother is African American and who spent part of her childhood in Dakar.

The Gqom sound runs the gamut of township flavor until it teases Afro-house and eThekwini (Durban) groove without fully admitting to its Kwaito influence.

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus’s “The Stranger.”

Political dissent erupts in Ecuador as President Rafael Correa turns on the indigenous and poor people.

Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.

Why the coup leader, General Gilbert Diendéré, is derailing the political transition in Burkina Faso.

Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.