Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Friday Black
The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.
A beautiful line of flight
If what has been happening in Algeria since February 22, 2019, may not be a revolution, it very much looks like it.
Ethiopia’s capitalist turn
In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.
An African film manifesto, forty years later
Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”
Against Zionism
The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.
The future of Senegalese politics?
Ousmane Sonko is 44 years old. He finished third in Senegal’s March 2019 presidential election, energizing young voters.
Others made of kindness
Ed Pavlic’s new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.
Eritrea’s diplomatic offensive?
An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?
Africa doesn’t care about its women
I have the privilege to fight, argue or board a plane when I feel like I’ve had enough. The vast majority of women on the continent do not have that option.
A photographer of African liberation
Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa’s liberation struggles.
South Africa’s Third Way revival
Economies are broken everywhere, but while the rest of the world considers the radical, South Africa resigns itself to the rational.
Revolutionary political thought in South Sudan
Once upon a time, South Sudanese exiles in Khartoum—inspired by, among others, Charles Dickens and Malcolm X—had a radical vision for their new country.
The Museum of Black Civilizations
France no longer has an excuse to hold on to Senegal’s cultural heritage. Senegal has a place for it.
Abantu Book Festival as an archive of the future
A radical feature on South Africa’s literary calendar, Abantu celebrates black intellectual labor, and resists the tropes that marginalizes it.
Indignity and solidarity are being televised in Algeria
Update from Algiers on the protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term in office.
The politics of a coup d’etat
Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d’etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Sudan’s doctors treating the political ailments of the nation
As Sudanese continue to chant “Just fall, that is all” against the regime, doctors pay a hefty price for standing with them.
The power of telling our own stories
When we as Africans tell our own stories, we re-write the stories in the history books that our children are still taught in schools.
Bisi Silva: Time Remembered
Bisi Silva’s constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.