Weekend Special, No. 1211
(1) Identity politics is neoliberalism, as Adolph Reed once said. And it delivers like clockwork. The hip hop
Articles by
Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs, Founder and Editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School and a Ford Foundation #AfricaNoFilter Fellow.
Weekend Special
We’re bringing back Weekend Special. Borrowing its title from a song by the late Brenda Fassie,
Art in dark times
Interview with historian Dan Magaziner about his new book, The Art of Life in South Africa, about one of the few art schools training black art teachers under Apartheid.
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
Martin Luther King Jnr., Pan-African
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday (January 15th) with a public holiday. Africans should too.
The year of Elaine Salo
It is very difficult to write or speak about Elaine Salo in the past tense. I
If Africa is a country, then Fidel Castro is one of our national heroes
On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro passed away. To many Africans Fidel was a hero, playing a central role in their liberation from colonialism.
The Upright Man, Thomas Sankara
Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.
The Rumble in the Jungle
Some of the most indelible images of Muhammad Ali come from his 1974 trip to the Congo.
Postapartheid South Africa’s negative moment
The political theorist Achille Mbembe, from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, describes South Africa
No normal sport in an abnormal society
Recently, Aubrey Bloomfield, a graduate student at The New School, and I wrote a piece for
On Safari
For all the serious stuff we wrote or filmed about, tweeted or Facebooked this year (we’ll