All you need to know about Ghana’s December 2016 elections
We asked a group of experts--journalists, academics and an architect--a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?
Articles by
Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs, Founder and Editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School and a Shuttleworth Fellow.
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
The racial and class politics of Muhammad Ali's 1974 fight against George Foreman in Zaire.
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
The ‘Big Man’ Syndrome in Africa
Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules?
On Safari
For all the serious stuff we wrote or filmed about, tweeted or Facebooked this year (we’ll
Flotsam No.1,000,0001
“Life” Magazine Cover. November 20, 1950. More on the photographer behind the image here.
Weekend Music Break No.83 – Banned in Nigeria edition
This summer Nigeria’s Broadcasting Corporation, or whoever is in charge of censoring content there, decided to
Weekend Music Break No.71
Boima is on vacation this week, so the rest of us scanned the music pages. We
“A malignant ‘nativism’ threatens post-apartheid democracy (in South Africa)”
Africa is a Country editorial board member Dan Magaziner and I published an oped on The New York
You’re African?: You can never become fully South African
For African immigrants to South Africa, belonging may be akin to that of brown or black person somewhere in Europe. That's how alienating South Africa can be.