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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
When it hits, you feel no pain
Music and politics are often intimate partners in society, whether an artist consciously connects them. What role does music play in the politics of today's world?
Tim Hetherington 1970-2011
The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.
His father named him for Duke Ellington
Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire," and "a fine person.”
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.