When Ghanaians put their arms around New York City
Today, 30,000 of the 235,000 Ghanaian immigrants to the US call New York City home.
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Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
Too deep for mere outrage
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
The “right” of white South Africans to be racist and offensive
Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa's defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron's apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
A cure for the Dutch disease
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
The Legacy of the Algerian Revolution
One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is the idea that it is impossible to contemplate a future in which the rest of the world does not resemble Europe.
We are all Helen Zille
Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.
The New York Court and Namibia
Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
Germany’s Marshall Plan for Africa
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany's ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa's development.