Peace deployed as a weapon in Angola
In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.
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Swaziland’s Bushfire
The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
In Praise of Defeat
The only safe thing to talk about in Eritrea, is football. Even the President watches football and is a public Arsenal fan.
The Veneers of Freedom
Why were Kenyans tweeting #52YearsofSufferinginNEP on this year's Independence Day?
Angolan ‘justice’ in a Portuguese slave house
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques — an opponent of state corruption in Angola — is being heard in a former slave house.
Decolonizing the University
What to do with the universities South Africa inherited from the violences of Apartheid.
The African Champions League Final
The Juventus team of Ghana's Kwadwo Asamoah, Italy's Angelo Ogbonna and the French pair Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba.
