The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
Politics
A cure for the Dutch disease
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
We are all Helen Zille
Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.
The New York Court and Namibia
Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
Germany’s Marshall Plan for Africa
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany's ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa's development.
The roots of the current crisis in South Africa
The ways in which state elites and the private sector have found ways to swindle the poor.
Where is the Central African Republic?
The Central African Republic has become shorthand for “failed postcolonial African state,” basically the prototype of a country in permanent crisis.
The Border Crossing
The unwelcome atmosphere for refugees from Africa in the United States, result in some of them risking their lives to get to neighboring Canada.
The Kalahari cattle market
Land, landlessness and the German genocide of Namibians at the turn of the 20th century.
More than a Weekend Special
African war criminals face The Hague. As for U.S. war criminals, they get to paint victims of their illegal wars—those whose bodies they broke into subjects of art.
Making Somalia great again
Xenophobia has emerged as a rare consistent and core aspect of President Trump’s foreign policy, directed
The President has left the country
What Nigerians know about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health (he's been in London for more than one month) comes from leaks and anonymous sources.
The crisis around Lake Chad
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
Repackaging Third Way liberalism
Vox's glossy presentations, crisp design and slick animations serve neoliberalism easily digestible to younger people and conducive to social media shares.
Israel’s Scramble for Africa
Israel’s recent rapprochement to African states is part of a coordinated effort by the government to get close to African countries.
What is to be done?
The German government will have to make a substantial move towards accommodating the demands of the Namibian people.
Unusable Nigerians
Oloibiri is a town located a few kilometers away from the city of Port Harcourt in
Marxism and Islam in Africa
Karl Marx can be useful to people fighting for social justice and who at the same time are deeply religious.
White masks in Tunisia
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night
The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.