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The year that Prince Akeem, Queen Aoleon, King Jaffe Joffer and the “African” Kingdom of Zamunda made a spectacular comeback.
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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.
Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
“Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation” lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.
Music Banned in Nigeria-Edition
This Weekend Music Break, No. 83, features eighteen pop songs that can’t be played on Nigerian airwaves. You can still listen on your phone or watch the videos on Youtube.
What can Africans learn from the Greek crisis?
I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza’s approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.
Freedom, youth and remembrance
In the documentary “Remembered Futures” the filmmakers interrogate the ways South Africans understand their own history and how this affects their futures.
Weekend Music Break No.71
Boima is on vacation this week, so the rest of us scanned the music pages. We
Apartheid’s Revenge
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.
Never becoming fully South African
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
The General
Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa’s biggest democracy.
The heart of whiteness, South African edition
We don’t think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.
Stuart Hall in Africa
Though Hall’s work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
African Cup of Nations memories
We’ve teamed up with brand new soccer kit supplier AMS (like them on Facebook) to give you the chance to win a Sierra Leone or South Sudan kit.
Historian Terence Ranger is no more
Zimbabwean historian Terence Ranger (1929-2015) is no more. Ranger was central to the historiography of Rhodesian
The Invisible Children Highlight Reel
Nine conclusions we can draw from the hype machine that was the viral advocacy campaign, Kony 2012. One of them was that ordinary Ugandans saw right through it.
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
Apartheid Israel
Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.