
The Contemporary Mark of Assata Shakur
The Black American activist’s relevance for today’s generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

The Black American activist’s relevance for today’s generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.

Why are affected West African states so spectacularly ill-prepared to deal with Ebola?



T.B. Joshua proffers a version of American tele-evangelism’s empty promises to African masses, as nationalism and liberation politics lose their shine.

The Sudanese film, “Beats of the Antonov,” explores the connections between the bombs of oppression and the resilience of culture.

The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.

To repeat: The Economist magazine has had a “Slavery Problem” since 1843.

And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?

The South African struggle suggests that sports boycotts are effective at forcing change. For white South Africans (and their apologists), sporting isolation was a bitter pill to swallow.

in places like Lagos where the healthcare system is inadequate and health workers constantly on strike, people rely on prayer.


Her nudity wakes us up, either in protest or solidarity to the fact that everything is not okay in South Africa.

Mainstream media (and therefore, the majority of the population) in Colombia believe that racism is just a problem of a “few bad apples.”

The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics ‘Come Back Africa,’ late-1980s ‘Mapantsula’ and Oscar winner ‘Tsotsi.’

James Matthews has the distinction of being one of the first Black Consciousness poets and publishers in South Africa. He is the subject of a documentary by director Shelley Barry.


Will the trade union that organized the strike will unify and rally workers outside of the ruling alliance.