
Apartheid Israel
Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.

What’s driving the violence against Latin American environmentalists?

Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.

The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It’s ahistorical.

Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically

A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.



The Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman put on blackface to fight the racist caricature Zwarte Piet.

With Kwame Nkrumah’s support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.

Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.

In “Futebol Nation,” British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.


As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.

Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.

Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.

A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it’s the right time to do it more regularly.

How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?