Instagram misreads a revolution
What social media activism gets wrong about the #SudanUprising: Sometimes it may be appropriate to leave the hashtags alone and say nothing.
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After the scramble
It's time to return Africa's vinyl records.
Is the world ready to support a Green New Deal for Africa?
The Green New Deal is surely the United States’ most ambitious vision for climate justice to date. But the climate crisis is a global one and Africa is Ground Zero.
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
The problem of African countries' memberships to multiple regional bodies? There's no problem.
The decline of Liberia in black internationalism
Historically, Liberia ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Then it stopped. What happened, and can it be reversed?
Solidarity with Sudan begins at home
A guide on how to support the uprising in Sudan.
Drones over Djibouti
Investments in military infrastructure by global powers, such as China and the United States, have increased on the African continent in recent years.
Future Radioheads
The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?
Frankenstein’s monster in Khartoum
On Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemitti, the man behind the massacres against Sudanese protesters.
Arabs and Africans
How the African Cup of Nations shows up Arab-African identity and cultural politics on the continent.
Saving and scoring penalties every day
What we learned from day seven of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
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.
Between democracy and despotism
South Africa introduces a new law which allows traditional leaders along with third parties to decide for communities, without their consent.
Black in Israel
The film 'Red Leaves’ is a timely depiction of the Ethiopian-Israeli struggle.
More commerce than chaos
In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
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.