What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali’s political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni’s work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
What African economies need: good, old fashioned industrial policy
In terms of economic development, most African countries are operating below the least developed country income
The Edge of Wrong
The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.
Weekend Music Break No.97
Here's another Music Break to soundtrack your weekend! This round up is the "other countries" edition with
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you’re not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
The Greatest Of All Time
The author, also named Muhammad, on what having a black hero meant during his childhood in Apartheid South Africa.
Capturing Nigerian histories before they disappear
The Nsibidi Institute Memory Project attempts to use digital forums to preserve popular, everyday memories of Nigeria.
In Africa, there should be djembe drums
For the last three months, we have been working on the sound design of my first
Olu’s Omniverse from the African Future(s)
Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.
Are you an African artist?
Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?
No higher form of hypocrisy
Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word”?
Is it too late now to say sorry?
The IMF is now acknowledges its neoliberal agenda over the last couple of decades was a mistake. Should we take them at their word.
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1.
Weekend Music Break No.96
Back to our regularly scheduled music break for your weekend! Sometimes we have to remind ourselves
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead
Their voices, sharp and angry, shook me from my slumber. I didn’t know the language, but
Kenya’s Refugee “Problem”
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.