Rethinking space in Accra, Ghana
Ghana has a housing crisis and Accra is increasingly marginalizing those who are far from able to get a piece of the real estate pie.
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James Barnor, ever young
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
Tunisia’s surveillance state
Mass monitoring poses a threat to democratic freedoms as the case of Tunisia shows.
Greening the Sahel isn’t enough
Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.
The best solution is coexistence
War, peace, and cooperation among herder-farmers in northeastern Uganda.
Paying for citizenship
What began as a revenue lifeline for small island states has become a global market where the wealthy buy mobility and sovereignty itself becomes a commodity.
Hip hop is the voice of the working class
An interview with Cape Town-based anarchist hip hop collective, Soundz of the South (or SOS).
Fear and loathing in the time of COVID-19
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
The “refugees welcome” culture
For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.
You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.
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.
This is my country
The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.
Paying the ultimate price
COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.
Uncovering ‘undesirable whites’ in the colonial archive
Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies — especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.
Dog day afternoon
The basic lesson from Halima Ouardiri’s short film, “Clebs,” about over 750 stray dogs living in a Moroccan sanctuary: We behave just like dogs.
Representing northern Ghana
A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.
Farther on from Zion
To consider Bob Marley today demands we look back across distance to the place and age that brought him to us.