What’s it like to be Somali in Kenya
Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Sunday night on Twitter with Binyavanga Wainaina
We sometimes joke that often when we're online the only other person who's consistently awake and on Twitter (no matter where he is in the world) is Binyavanga Wainaina. It's like, if you blink, you miss out on some pronouncement by him. Though he has been an active social media user for a while now, it was after he came out on January 18th, that he has gone into overdrive. And you can't look away. No one else we know, talking about Africans and their relations to the West (not on Western terms), is in such blistering form right now. Take Sunday night when--from a hotel balcony in Dakar; he was in town to give a lecture--he just went in
Boxing lesson
Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.
Old Money’s mothership is here to save us all
The musical groups perhaps setting the pace for a new idea of liberation for people of African descent in the Americas.
Weekend in Stellenbosch
The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa’s universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.
The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today’s post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.
The paradox of our engagement with technological apparatus
How can bodily experiences be shared, asks British Nigerian director Shola Amoo in his short film, “Touch.”
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Thank God, you were born white
On one of the last days of AIAC's first #WhiteHistoryMonth, I found myself getting increasingly annoyed in the queue to board the last flight from Murtala Mohmammed International Airport, Lagos to Johannesburg. Behind me stood two South Africans, who were giggling and entertaining each other in a way that had they been ten, or in their teens, an accompanying adult would have asked them to take it down a notch.
What they don’t tell you about Stellenbosch
The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch’s black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: How Unexpected
From this week’s Washington Post Travel Section--"How unexpected: There was more modernity than I expected, such as extremey modern infrastructure (roads, etc.) in many places, although there is still poverty there. "
Let’s talk about #CancelColbert
Colbert’s satire is based in a smug ironic whiteness. It doesn’t mean I have to like it or can’t feel it’s problematic or alienating as a person of color.
The Expatriate
Ethiopian-American artist, Wayna, explores issues including police brutality, disenfranchisement, race and identity in her music.
The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.’s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country’s Black communities.
Cricket in America
The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.
Africa is a Country Radio
On Groovalizacion. The host is Chief Boima, from his new base in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (check out his first post from there). The format is a monthly round up of audio treats from around Africa and its diaspora with occasional commentary from the community of writers from Africasacountry.com. The first episode went out this afternoon.
The “wisdoms” of Akon
When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon’s reactionary’s views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.
Fela Kuti on Film
Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?
Belgium lives outside history
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
Sex and the City meets Americanah
“An African City,” the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.
Happy Africans
Pharrell Williams’s pop hit, “Happy,” is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?