
The Latin American Idol
How a Mexican show helped to construct a patchy and ill-defined “Latin American” identity.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

How a Mexican show helped to construct a patchy and ill-defined “Latin American” identity.

Ridley Scott’s “Exodus” and deeply rooted issues of bigotry and racism in Hollywood.

Many middle-class black South Africans hold poor and working-class blacks in disregard if not disdain, and believe poor blacks hold themselves back.

Organized at Harvard University, this digital library contains rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts.

What has been the personal legacy and costs to the Abiola women in Nigeria’s struggle for democracy.


How we harness knowledge to the ethical injunctions we uphold against marginality, pain or suffering, on a global scale.


Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa’s founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.

Brazil, under the Workers’ Party, even if it’s still struggling with enormous poverty and social inequality, has managed to improve tremendously.

Mexico has never healed from the state violence that meets student revolts, dating back to 1968.

With the exception of Hillary Clinton’s attempt at entering politics during Bill Clinton’s first term as president there hasn’t been a more contentious First Lady.

Can we teach about Latin America not exploiting its shock-value or as a ready-to-consume entity?


Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.

What’s driving the violence against Latin American environmentalists?

Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.

The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It’s ahistorical.

Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically

A digital archive featuring the work of over 180 cartoonists from throughout the African continent.