
Catching up with Noura Mint Seymali
A smallish woman from Mauritania, she rules the stage with a fiery intensity that only the most powerful divas can maintain.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

A smallish woman from Mauritania, she rules the stage with a fiery intensity that only the most powerful divas can maintain.

Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims—both symbolically and practically.

To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?

The Mathare Social Justice Center’s activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.

After a tough election in Tanzania, won by the ruling party, a constitutional crisis looms in Zanzibar.



White South African cricket writers should stop commenting on cricket as if the game is apolitical or the national team is still as all-white as when the country was first allowed back into international cricket.

The new documentary film, “We Will Win Peace,” skillfully debunks many myths behind conflict minerals in the Congo.

Festejo Pachone is a crowdfunded music estival in Bogotá, Colombia that disproves the perception of the city is culturally lacking.

The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.

The film is doubly removed from the West Africa in which it was made and in whose name it claims to speak.

We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.



A digital collection that enhances understandings of the South African struggle against apartheid through the medium of film.

The members of Johannesburg rock band, The Brother Moves On, see themselves as Pan-Africanists.

The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.

The immigrant Maghrebi experience in Lyon, France, as told through cassette tapes.
