Chris Hani’s political legacy
Chris Hani should not be made into an ideal type or used to settle political scores in the present.
Politics
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.
Leather from Human Skin
In the 1880s, in Philadelphia, "birthplace of America," some white locals used the skin of black people to make clothes, including shoes.
The Undemocratic Alliance
South Africa's second largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, exhibits the same paranoia as does the ruling party when it comes to dissent.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: When Marlon Brando brought up Native American rights at the Oscars
In March 1973, Marlon Brando won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in “The
When Salazar met one of Lumumba’s murderers
António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese still remember him fondly.
Aimé Césaire on Europe
"At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler."
Instagramming Africa
An interview with Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, founders of the Instagram project, Everyday Africa.
#WhiteHistoryMonth
Every February here schools, McDonald’s, television, corporations, the advertising industry, celebrate Black History Month. The whole
Finding the Afro- in Brazil
Last week I wrote a post about my excitement around the African musical permutations I was