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.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
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
How to report on the student protests in South Africa
Following protest action at the University of Cape Town and Wits University in Johannesburg against higher
When Thomas Piketty went to South Africa
Bizarrely, for all the attention paid Piketty’s visit to South Africa, we’ve learned very little about what he actually said. So, what did he tell his hosts?
Where is “America”?
Before Columbus’ arrival, there were already millions of people living in America, who we could say had “discovered it.”
Dispatch from Berlin
“What is the difference between refugees and ‘normal’ citizens besides the fact that the former had to flee from their homes? There is none.”
Weekend Music Break No.86 – The WOMEX (2015) Edition
The 15th edition of WOMEX, Europe's premiere World Music trade show is happening next week in
Cowries and Rice
The global impact of the exchanges and experiences between China and Africa.
October 15, 1987: The Murder of Thomas Sankara
Note left at Thomas Sankara’s graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”
The stories of Ghana’s young filmmakers
Heritage inspires content and art conjures thought. With this ethos guiding us, Rebecca Oheneasah Hesse and I launched
Bigger and bigger
Every month, Hipsters Don’t Dance send us their “Top World Carnival Tunes.” This is September 2015’s chart.
Rewriting the Black Mediterranean
Igiaba Scego is one of the most prominent voices of a new cohort of Black writers in Italy.
President dos Santos and the ruling MPLA: Afraid of Angolans
if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola’s state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands.