Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
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David Cameron’s Libya Doctrine
Britain's secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
Mahesh Shantaram’s Addis Ababa Diary
Images of Ethiopia by Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.
Il Manifesto
Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.
Bono’s Big Ideas for Africa
Please, no more articles claiming to discuss African issues, but which are just rock stars turning up at US universities spouting nonsense.
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
Eggs and omelettes
The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.
Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."
Whose Commemoration
The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.
In Search of the “African Middle Class”
Who would guess that a little over a decade ago Africa was mostly described as "the hopeless continent"?
An environmental calamity
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
Nelson Mandela is around like never before
Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.
On African Fiction(s)
Who decides where African fiction begins and ends and which (African) writers fall within its ambit?
New Muslim Youth Culture
Hisham Aidi’s book ‘Rebel Music' remixes race, faith, and geography
People are going to know who Bob Hewitt is
Bob Hewitt migrated from Australia to apartheid South Africa. There he became a champion in white tennis. He is also accused of abusing children whose families trusted him as their tennis coach.