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?
Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.
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).
'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.
The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.
The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.
In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.
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.
The global response to a disease that largely effects the most marginalized populations of poorer countries shows a basic lack of respect for human rights on the part of international institutions.
When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.
The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.
Try being a single woman in Nigeria.
In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.
American liberals’ continued refusal to engage seriously with the global collapse of the postwar liberal order.
Homosexuality continues to be a dangerous topic in Senegal. There, as in much of the African continent, heteronormative behavior is enforced with violence.
The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.
Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.
Sierra Leoneans take center stage as storytellers and active witnesses in a new documentary about the Ebola outbreak.
Who gets to host future editions of the men's soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.