
Between Rwanda and Mandela
When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book “Of Africa,” the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book “Of Africa,” the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela


One of the main challenge for the continent remain: there is a lack of consensus in terms of African strategies towards India, the US, or China.

To make sense of Bill Cosby’s fall from grace requires distinguishing questions of legacy from questions of individual reputation.

The feminist Bella Matabanadzho remembers Zimbabwean academic and activist Sam Moyo carrying his “intellectual smarts with so much ease.”

The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality – especially the casual racism – drives him away.

‘Beauté Congo’ wonderfully represents Congolese contemporary art, yet fails to completely evade European colonial baggage.


As immigrants, refugees and citizens, we must fight together to stop the rampant racism created and sustained by the government and their policies of forced isolation.

How accusations that a visiting African-American professor was denied entry to a high end hotel, present an opportunity to address racism in Brazil.


African political elites will continue to use the spoils of “development” and aid to serve their personal interests.

Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.

The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.

How can international advocacy movements be self-reflective and accountable to the people on whose behalf they speak?

For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.


The recent explosions in the Stade de France was one of the most surreal things to ever take place in a stadium built nearly two decades ago specifically to house history.

A Congolese writer whose work oscillates between gripping dystopia and humanist celebration.

There’s little doubt that Chinese and Arab interests are procuring land in Africa, but a careful review of the evidence suggests also point to local buyers.