Football, Disappearances and Disasters in Haiti
The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens’s football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti’s US’s supported dictatorship.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
The Black Messiah
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
The news from South Africa
…or the constant deferral of reconciliation
Just one long war
The US is re-upping its failed “war on drugs” in Central America. The spin is they will fight “violence and poverty.” This won’t end well.
Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.
African Hip Hop
This week I thought I'd try something a little different, inspired by some links I came
Roger Young’s ‘Keys, Money, Phone’ explores the heart of young whiteness in Cape Town
Something is shifting in South Africa. White privilege is a hot topic, specifically in print and
Your concepts of African belonging
The El Foukr R’Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.
Many Terence Rangers
If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.
Africa Cup of Nations Memories
Watchiing the African Cup of Nations before the era of internet streams and mass football broadcasting in North America.
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city’s busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s defiant struggle for justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Newton Aduaka
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
Do critiques of representation make a real difference?
The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.
The birth of Malawian hip hop
Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.
The first feature film out of the DRC in over 28 years
Viva Riva! director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, on African self-representation, and opening a production company in “chaos.”
Africa Cup of Nations Memories: When Sudan scored their first AFCON goal in 32 years
Sudan had entered AFCON 2012 with 23 home-based players, all playing in Sudan. It was the
The importance of cultural preservation
The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.
Why would a Black American root for Ghana’s soccer team over USA?
This post on The Outer Drive got me thinking about blackness and football, but first and
Security Killings: American Police Violence, from Ferguson to Nairobi
The world watched U.S. tanks roll into Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, in a misguided attempt