The year of Elaine Salo
Elaine Salo, who died on August 13, 2016, had done the hard work of liberation and engaged head-on with the limits and promises of the new South Africa.
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The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
The film 'Guangzhou Dream Factory" is a rich account of the complexities of living in China as an African migrant.
Africa makes us look better
For the author, the "us" are the thousands of Euro-American expatriates in Kenya, including herself.
Yahya Jammeh’s tribalism
How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.
Kenya’s greatest virtue
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?
The Fourth Way
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, knows young people in Congo want him gone.
Our Subjective List of The Best Books of 2016
We asked our editorial group, some contributors and friends to let us know what they would rate as their best hardcover they read this calendar year.
Kabila’s impasse
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.