What Kenya means to Barack Obama
Throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, his personal links to Kenya have been weaponized by the U.S.'s Right’s as a slur. But there's more to his relationship with his father's country.
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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.
The trouble with ‘showing the real Africa’
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.
Uptown griots
Malians started arriving in New York City in the 1980s, numbering about 8,000 now. They also brought their music.
Inequality and more inequality
Reading maps, the interventionist state and another $15 billion missing from Nigeria's government.
Fear and loathing in the time of COVID-19
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
Pan African Space Station, NYC
A periodic, pop-up live radio studio, a performance and exhibition space, a research platform and living archive.
Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
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.
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.