Lumumba’s iconography in the arts
On anniversary of the birthday of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Congo, we ask, “What iconography arose around him, and why is that iconography so diverse?”
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
An ambivalent sense of belonging
Janet McIntosh’s fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.
Six LGBTQ+ figures from African history
In honor of Pride month, we revisit the past which shows that many Africans were unapologetic about their sexuality and gender non-conformity.
The Two Sudans
During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan’s independence struggle.
What does it mean to be African in a post-apartheid academy?
The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.
‘We have no Harlem in Sudan’
The current global discourse on Black Lives Matter does not yet adequately include anti-black racism beyond how the West experiences it.
Exclusionary city
The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.
Reading List: Xavier Livermon
Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.
This artist doesn’t want to sing for the Kenyan government
Government money, artistic freedom, and integrity in Kenya in the time of COVID-19.
Teaching as grassroots feminist militantism
Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.
The blankest spot on Trump’s world map
In his new book of his time in the Trump White House, former US National Security Adviser John Bolton shares Trump’s very few thoughts on Africa.
What’s “local” labor in Burkina Faso’s mining sector?
In Burkina Faso’s mines, the differences between local and foreign workers are significant, especially what they get paid.
‘Bogus companies’ in the DR Congo
Can safety policies in the transnational mining sector in DR Congo break with the past?
Low worker wages and high inequality
How an industrial mine in the Congo reveals the inequity of wage distribution.
The myth of sustainable jobs in extractives
The optimism for “decent” and “sustainable” jobs in extractive industries does not fit with the reality in many African countries.
Born from the soil
Traditional chiefs and the politics of labor recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry.
Towards a neoliberal labor regime?
The introduction to our series, “Capital and Labor,” that looks at the current state of the mining industry on the African continent.
Decolonizing the vaccine
Africans can lead the charge to decolonize the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritized access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
A politics of nuisance
Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.
The wife’s tale
First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women’s histories.