
Narendra Modi’s New India
For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.

The hype around ‘mixed race’ families ignore that it is not a new phenomenon, but been a central part of Dutch colonial history.

Hip-hop in Africa is diverse—no single sound defines it. Electro-chaabi, mbalax-influenced rap, and house-sampling styles all reflect the continent’s broad musical scope.


There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.

Interview with curators Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg Center) and Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum) about the African presence in Western and Asian art.

Shmuley Boteach promotes the Rwandan dictator in the US Jewish community and to other Americans as a friend of Israel, Boteach’s other foreign cause.


The third in a series of four posts to commemorate 90 years since James Baldwin’s birth.

A very short introduction to Peter Mutharika, Malawi’s new President.

China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.


It’s unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can’t get enough of it.


“Miners Shot Down,” by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

White South Africans come together to vote as a bloc for only two political parties: the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans moved to Ghana and redefined their relationships to citizenship in the U.S. and their African identities.