Memorializing all Kenya’s terror victims
“I want to go to a place … where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963.”–Binyavanga Wainaina.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
How to Govern Nigeria
The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.
We’ve Resurrected Weekend Music Break. Here’s No.68
Keeping with the weekend's theme, we've decided to resurrect the Weekend Music Break with number 68! For those
How to make sense of #Garissa
For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially “global news networks,” and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.
Jonathan runs out of Goodluck
Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria’s history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.
Zimbabwe from A to Z
I is for Independence: That revolutionary moment when we as a new cowntry, ended our reliance on colonial governments for civil services, and instead, started relying on NGOs.
Will Africa’s Industrial Revolution Be Made in China?
In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.
Should the African Union Run a Country?
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
A Closer Look at Mexico’s Drop in Violence
The catastrophic consequences of Mexico’s militarized war on drugs, despite all the breezy media coverage.
The Audacity of ‘Somali Studies’
The recent #CadaanStudies controversy that pitted a German anthropologist, Dr. Markus Hoehne, against young Somali researchers,
Double Time
We are back with the monthly chart of the "Top World Carnival Tunes" for March 2015.
Black President
Kudzanai Chiurai, the Zimbabwean-born South African artist known for his ironic commentaries on postcolonial politics, is the subject of a documentary film by BLK JKS guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata.
Playing cricket while Black
Black players are consistently reduced to their racial identities by the South African media.
The General
Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa’s biggest democracy.
The Mercenary Playbook
Why do Western media outlets still fantasize that Apartheid’s foot soldiers will be the ones to stop Boko Haram?
Paralyzed with Fear of the Past
J.M. Coetzee wondered in the late 1980s what price white South Africans are willing to pay for fraternity with Black South Africans.
Nigeria meets Brazil in the U.K.
Nigeria and Brazil have a long and intimate historical connection. Nigerian culture has provided a central reference point in
Can the Somali Speak?
The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.
The FBI’s obsession with African-American Literature
The agency was the “most dedicated and influential critic” of black writers, with agents writing detailed analyses of authors they were spying on.
Was Cecil Rhodes really a genius?
By studying the actions of his British South Africa Company (BSAC) in present day Zambia, starting about 1890, the answer is an emphatic: No.