The resilience of culture
The film The Sound of Masks explores dance, memory and the meaning of life, ancestry, culture and political struggle in postcolonial Mozambique.
Mozambique
Gutting the public sector serves no one
Structural Adjustment Programs, implemented by the World Bank and IMF in developing countries, leave the administrative state especially unequipped to deal with climate change.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique. They also offer a new generation blueprints on revolution and solidarity.
Cyclone Idai and climate justice
Beyond immediate disaster relief, sustainable global responses to climate change require greater and more predictable funding to strengthen the resilience of the planet's most vulnerable regions.
The fragility of the Mozambican state in the face of climate change
As Cyclone Idai swept across Mozambique, it encountered a state weakened by an extractivist development model and captured by global capital, leaving ordinary Mozambicans exposed.
The untimely death of Afonso Dhlakama
Mozambicans feel the death of the former leader of Renamo could put a wrench in the path towards a peaceful, democratic future.
In a film about war, can you leave out the politics?
The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down.
Is environmental philanthropy still a white man’s game?
In our ravaged anthropocene, few things seem more noble and worthwhile than rebuilding a national park, increasing
The Ghost of the IMF’s Past
It’s May Day today, but we still have some work to do. To the coalface we go.
A Luta Continua: A triumph for press freedom in Mozambique
One day after the international day of democracy on September 15, it was truly a day
Thoughts on Xenophobia from a South African in Mozambique
When you spend time in another country, you don’t expect news from home on the local television
Was Gilles Cistac murdered to make Frelimo look bad?
Some say that Gilles Cistac was murdered to make Frelimo look bad. If that was the
#WhiteHistoryMonth: White settler states and secret police forces
Counter-insurgency strategy is a global business. Such is the story of the ‘flechas’ (arrows). Begun in
Eu Sou Cistac: What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique
A murdered lawyer, a Facebook troll, an opposition party once reviled as a stooge of the
The protest tradition of Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country's post-socialist modernity through dance.
How Frelimo rehabilitated Renamo in time for Mozambique’s Elections
Mozambique’s October 15 elections demonstrated how “divided” the country is. Frelimo, the party in power since
Film: Guerilla-Core or Militant Image? On Göran Olsson’s ‘Concerning Violence’
How do you tell a story about African liberation through the lens of an outsider? Concerning Violence:
New Sounds from Mozambique
Most of Mozambique’s music stars and musical genres known abroad come from the south of the
The Friendship Between China and Mozambique Will Last Forever Like the Heavens and the Earth
In Maputo, the “Garden for Sculptors” behind the Museu Nacional de Arte on Avenida Ho Chi
When Salazar met one of Lumumba’s murderers
For context: António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese remember him fondly.