Narendra Modi’s New India
For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.
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Africa holds up a mirror to India
Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.
Authoritarian India in retreat?
The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.
A Visitor’s Guide to India
The key question: Are you black? Worry. It is almost always your fault.
The Indian-African alliance
Little attention is given to how Indians are viewed and treated not only on the African continent, but by peoples of African descent across the world.
Us and Them: Rape and Racism in India
…sensible.” Meanwhile, African students looking to study in India need to be aware that Delhi, and
Imagining the South African Indian
How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?
Empire’s middlemen
From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath.
Who dreams of sunrise?
Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.
Indian Jazz
…Susheel Kurien’s “Finding Carlton” about bebop guitarist Carlton Kitto and “the bygone age of jazz in
Namaste India
Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ protests
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
How Indian cinema shaped East Africa’s urban culture
The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.
Narendra Modi’s ‘Africa’ policy
Under Modi, Africa will not just be a continent where India expands its economic footprint, but also builds, protects and projects its power.
An electoral autocracy
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.
The African churches of South Delhi
Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.
There are more cell phones in Africa than India
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
What are courts for?
Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.
The emperor gets a new wardrobe
African political elites will continue to use the spoils of "development" and aid to serve their personal interests.
The African presence in Western Art
Interview with curators Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg Center) and Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum) about the African presence in Western and Asian art.