Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #1
Listen to Africa is a Country Radio every month on Groovalizacion. March’s episode was the first
Politics
Race Science Files: New York Times edition
Just what level of racist insanity does an "expert" have to exhibit before the New York Times starts to think they're not an expert?
Who are Boko Haram, and how did they come to be?
This is currently Boko Haram's structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
A Short History of the Slave Trade in Nigeria
A public service as a response to Nigeria's removal of history from its school curriculum
Belonging—Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets "slave ship" ironing boards and aprons.
The last space of cultural dynamism in Luanda’s baixa is no more
Angolans protest as the state threatens to tear down an historic building.
The African Cake
Last week a bunch of smartly dressed activists, myself included, made a visit to the UK’s
Chris Hani’s political legacy
Chris Hani should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Where were you when Chris Hani was killed?
Chris Hani, a prominent ANC and Communist Party leader, was murdered on April 10, 1993, by white racists. The writer remembers hearing the news.
What’s it like to be Somali in Kenya
Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.
The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Thank God, you were born white
On one of the last days of AIAC’s first #WhiteHistoryMonth, I found myself getting increasingly annoyed
#WhiteHistoryMonth: How Unexpected
From this week’s Washington Post Travel Section–“How unexpected: There was more modernity than I expected, such
The FBI’s Hustle
The contradictions of U.S.'s domestic and international policies manifested by its wars on drugs, terror, and the country's Black communities.
Belgium lives outside history
The writer, a Nigerian immigrant to Belgium, writes about her experience with racism, including as a town councillor.
Ghanaian preachers say the darndest things
The world, via American, is getting to know about how in Ghana the lines between religion and politics, and fact and fiction are often blurred.
The trouble with #WhiteHistoryMonth is that it is not history yet
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.
Was Sherlock Holmes a racist?
The real question is of course about the racism of Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.