Who’s reporting Africa now?
NGOs and freelance journalists are increasingly filling the vacuum being left by a declining Western media presence. It's not all good.
Culture
I have rarely seen a people pray as much as Haitians do
The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.
The house of exile
Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.
O problema com ‘Black Panther’
No primer aniversario do estreno do filme 'Black Panther,' re-publicamos o ensaio de Russell Rickford traducido em Português.
African history on its own terms
There are far richer and more complex stories to the continent's history than we think we know. Especially missing: perspectives of African women.
The disidentification of Mahamat Saleh Haroun
2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad's first feature film, 'Bye Bye Africa.'
Speculative view
Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria
The forgotten kingdom
The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.
Everything must fall
Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.
The lady is not for turning
Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.
The architects of fantasy
Among the Ga people of Ghana, there's more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.
Only the soil can free us
Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.
Gods of Fiction: African writers and the fantasy of power
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
Pride, prejudice and blackface
A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.
Homophobic liberals
In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.
Sudan in Berlin
"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for—it's really its own country."
How did objects come to be in museums and who is entitled to own them?
The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?
The film about nowhere
Invisible City [Kakuma], a film about Kenya's largest refugee camps, seems keen on making a point but is anchored on unsteady ground (with some shitty translation).
Fanon’s fugitive archive
A new, massive collection of published and unpublished works by Frantz Fanon, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.
Exile, Return, Home?
Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.