The Magnificence of Kongo Art
Twenty-one years ago, “Angolan Sculpture, memorial of cultures,” curated by Marie Louise Bastin in the Lisbon
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The Organic Intellectual
Sam Moyo, who died in a car accident on 22 November 2015, was a leading authority on Zimbabwean agrarian, land, and environmental issues.
The hypocrisy of the imperial enterprise
How to make sense of the Paris attacks within the international history of the 20th and 21th century, especially France's history of colonialism.
Between Rwanda and Mandela
When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela
Mahmood Mamdani remembers his friend and comrade Sam Moyo
I no longer recall when exactly I met Sam. Maybe it was in the late 1970s
The bargaining power of African states
One of the main challenge for the continent remain: there is a lack of consensus in terms of African strategies towards India, the US, or China.
The Bill Cosby Show
To make sense of Bill Cosby’s fall from grace requires distinguishing questions of legacy from questions of individual reputation.
An ode in memory of Chimusoro Sam Moyo
The feminist Bella Matabanadzho remembers Zimbabwean academic and activist Sam Moyo carrying his "intellectual smarts with so much ease."
Why I left the most beautiful place on earth
The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality - especially the casual racism - drives him away.
The Congolese Burden
'Beauté Congo' wonderfully represents Congolese contemporary art, yet fails to completely evade European colonial baggage.
الاجئين يحتاجون الحرية لا المساعدات
كأحد الناشطين في مجال حقوق الاجئين وكمهاجر عايشت كل الظروف التي يمر بها الاجئين القادمين الي
Refugees need freedom, not handouts
As immigrants, refugees and citizens, we must fight together to stop the rampant racism created and sustained by the government and their policies of forced isolation.