Angola’s Forgotten Massacre
Lara Pawson's book about the complex and violent events on and after the 27th of May, 1977: the date of a supposed coup d’etat in Luanda, Angola.
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The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.
Which Art History in Africa?
As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.
The imagination of the United Nations
Why aren’t Africans living on the continent part of the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent?
Germany’s new scramble for Africa?
Germany’s military shift represents the country’s belated entry into a “colonial present.“
Between Magic and Reality
On Otavalo, the largest outdoor indigenous market in South America.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Is Africa really rising? No.
The rhetoric around “Africa rising” is giving us a false sense of comfort and distracting us from the real work that needs to happen.
The lesson of Marikana
The relationship between the massacre of workers at Marikana and the rational destiny of market fundamentalism.
Israel’s “blackwashing”
Israel's promotion of itself as a technologically-advanced "white savior" on an aid mission to poor black nations, is a marketing ploy to cover the occupation.
Where is “America”?
Before Columbus’ arrival, there were already millions of people living in America, who we could say had “discovered it."
A Cartographic Narrative
Visualizing the 1760-1761 Slave Revolt in Jamaica, the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.
Books of 2015
A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.
In honor of Rose Lomathinda Chibambo
Rose Chilambo was a prominent leader in the fight against British colonialism and the first woman cabinet minister in independent Malawi.
The Radical Historian
Martin Legassick (1940-2016) was key to revisionist tradition among South African historians that made connections between apartheid and post-war capitalism.
The Myth of the African travel writer
African travelers, it would seem, must still justify their movements across the planet (whether the motives be professional, economic or political).
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
What does Brexit mean for Africa?
The short answer: The UK doesn’t have the same influence on the continent that it did decades ago. And Brexit will be further proof of that.
The legacy of Albert Johanneson
Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.
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.