The work of historical fiction
How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre?
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Smashing patriarchy, one hip hop cypher at a time
‘Words of a Rebel Sistah’ wants to create a counter-culture in which women are liberated and all forms of oppression are eradicated.
All your faves are problematic
A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.
Fearless in Nigeria
In this installment of our “Liner Notes,” the Nigerian musician, Villy, writes about his band’s EP, “Humananimals.”
How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire
South Africa needs a new public debate
Much of the criticism about neoliberalism is coming from the dominant faction of the ANC, the center-left party trying to hold onto power.
“We Are All Many Things”
South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.
Irregular boundaries
First class cricket in South Africa, once a white man’s preserve, is now technically open to all, but it is a game of money, dazzle, dancing girls and quick results.
Don’t kill yourself because of suffering
Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.
When Ghanaians put their arms around New York City
Today, 30,000 of the 235,000 Ghanaian immigrants to the US call New York City home.
Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
Too deep for mere outrage
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
The “right” of white South Africans to be racist and offensive
Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa’s defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron’s apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
A cure for the Dutch disease
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
The Legacy of the Algerian Revolution
One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is the idea that it is impossible to contemplate a future in which the rest of the world does not resemble Europe.
We are all Helen Zille
Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.
The New York Court and Namibia
Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.