Elections on, university off
Closed since June 2023, the University of Dakar has become a symbol of the collapse of Senegalese democracy.
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Maboneng is on fire
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
La femme fatale africaine
Africa Is a Country is partnering with AfroWave Echoes to present their quarterly playlist of African music.
Branches without roots
Across Africa, governments are elevating STEM education while sidelining the humanities. But science and technology are never neutral, and technical expertise alone cannot transform society.
Nollywood in Paris
For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.
Don’t believe the hype
South Africa's media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.
Congo beyond the hashtags
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.
Probing Subliminal Violence
The artist Mohau Modisakeng mines the contours of colonial and post-colonial history.
Buckingham Palace
District Six was the start of a really vibrant, none racial South African and that’s why it had to die.
Make Ignorance History
That old excuse of ‘We didn’t know’ (previously also heard as ‘Ons het nie geweet nie’ and ‘Wir haben es nicht gewuszt’) may be factually accurate, but it is never an ethical defense.
What Binyavanga thinks of the Caine Prize
The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.
Joe Slovo is still one of my heroes
Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid and one of the most visible white face of that movement, even after apartheid.
The Italian Joseph Conrad
Alessandro Spina produced one of the greatest indictments against colonialism and jingoism, as well as a tribute to the Mediterranean’s cosmopolitanism.