A New Kind of Romance
Nigerian publisher: it is time the continent’s consumer class gets romance lit that is entertaining and reflect the complexity of their lives.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
Pure Bacardi house fun
Hipsters Don’t Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
When I was first given the opportunity to write this weekly series, I reached out to
Black death and revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students
The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France’s former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Kivu Ruhorahoza
Ruhorahoza wished he made “Sans Soleil” by Chris Marker: “The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free.”
The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
The A to Z of Kenyan Twitter
"Twitter is going to change Kenya!” I declared in my presentation. We’d just set up a
Angola’s Flash Mobs
Should the tipping point against the MPLA – in power since independence – arrive in Angola, there are some activists ready to hit the ground, running.
Purely as artifacts
Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.
Cape Town, Segregation and Hip Hop
It’s very difficult for Spaza (hip hop done mostly in Xhosa) and Afrikaans hip hop to organically co-exist.
African pop reawakens its political roots
Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world’s eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.
Tony Blair Saves The Children of Africa
Interventionists across the political class in Europe and North America have comprehensively militarized the humanitarian enterprise
The BBC gets Rwanda wrong
It is a lot to ask the world to accept the multiple truths of Rwanda and it was too much for the film to explain this picture in all of its complicated nuance and actually share with us what remains untold about Rwanda’s story.
Sweden’s love affair with Pippi Longstocking and “definitions” of racism
Recently The New York Times picked up on one of Sweden’s latest "race controversies": The Swedish national broadcaster announced
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
Remembering Slavery in South Africa
People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.
Racial Degeneracy and Cowardice
The failure of Americans to have a concerted conversation on racism is not surprising. Too much is at stake for too many people, interests and institutions.