The average person in Uganda
Ugandans are confronted by a cultural and political paradigm which pushes a preference for Western lives and lifestyles from multiple angles.
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I hate Spur!
Nothing about the popular SPUR restaurant chain in South Africa is Native North American.
What if black people inverted South Africa’s township tours?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
Some problems between the people and the police
What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Hawa Essuman
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid's last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
Stuart Hall in Africa
Though Hall's work was written from the vantage point of the black immigrant experience in the UK, some of it resonated in South Africa.
Economics has an Africa problem
There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.
Party like its 1999
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
The West are not those most affected by terrorism
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s film "Timbuktu" complicates the Jihadist narrative in Africa.