Hillary and Bill Clinton’s Past in Haiti
It’s surprising how little the failures and destruction of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s presence in Haiti have been brought up so far.
Politics
An Independence Manifesto
Black people should not be held not responsible for the social limits and ideologies undergirding legal structures.
Colombia and the search for truth
The agreement to establish a truth commission for Colombia have the sides looking at the South African experience.
No country for widows
The astonishing lengths to which the South African state went to demean and diminish Marikana miners, dead and living, and their loved ones.
What Does Democracy Feel Like for Gay South Africans?
During a visit to Durban Pride, the authors conclude that democracy feels strange. For one, it feels like increased LGBTI visibility and increased backlash.
Issa Hayatou: MVP?
Is the Confederation of African Football's president advancing the continent's football or entangling it in geopolitics that could backfire and have lasting consequences?
Wasila Tasi’u is fifteen years old and out of prison
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, was charged
Taking white privilege abroad
“Ex-South Africans” are a white, right-wing strain of South Africa’s diaspora that identify with and longs for the South Africa of apartheid.
The stranger among you
How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?
The US nostalgia for racist regimes in Africa
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
A certain kind of Black
A meditation on Haiti and Charleston. Being Black, these days, means living in constant state of siege.
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The Dominican state and the country's elites make up a history of conflict with Haiti to justify the periodic deportation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
Bashir’s last trip outside of Sudan
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan's President Omar al Bashir?
The Primitive Tribe
A satire on particularly British, and wider European, attitudes towards refugees fleeing war and climate disaster.
Punished for being African
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
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.
Why would you only watch Canada at Canada’s World Cup?
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a
The Veneers of Freedom
Why were Kenyans tweeting #52YearsofSufferinginNEP on this year's Independence Day?