Have we learned nothing?
Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Football between above and below
In “Futebol Nation,” British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.
Making Azonto: Local Roots and International Branches
As a DJ, having the platform of Africa is a Radio to showcase the music I'm
Giving politicians a lyrical trashing
As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.
Belgium’s blackface problem
Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.
Kenya gets an Art Fair
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.
Soweto Punk Revolution
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.
Nelson Mandela founded a beauty contest
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.
The limits of the idea of “alternative Africas”
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?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Jihan El-Tahri
Legendary documentarian Jihan El-Tahri started her career as a journalist, working as a news agency correspondent
Mexico’s deadly virus
The United States lives in a state of constant fear. Currently, Ebola is to blame. The
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I remember being awe-struck by a picture I saw in on the Sunday papers somewhere around
Fifty Four Kingdoms
The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with “a pan-Africanist sensibility.” They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.
Bienvenidos a América Latina es un país
Latin America is a Country is the newest member of the Africa is a Country family. The section is coedited by Pablo Medina Uribe and Camila Osorio.
The Digital Mandela
Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa’s democratic president, Nelson Mandela.
#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr’e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Tis the blackface season in the Netherlands
Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.
They do know it’s Christmas
Bob Geldof doesn’t need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.
How To Use a Sjambok
This and other lessons from the South African front lines.
Has the giant fallen?
The split within South Africa’s largest trade union federation, COSATU.