The New Black Atlantic
What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.
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Neither anthem will do
Nigerians should reject both a song that conjures colonial memories and a tune that evokes years of military rule.
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.
The prerogative of a lame duck President
Why Goodluck Jonathan's presidential pardons are a bad idea.
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.
The Foreign Coach
Africa's men's national football teams have failed to improve under foreign coaches and there is nothing to suggest that this state of affairs will ever improve.
Why does South African history continue to be written primarily by white scholars?
The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.
Where is “America”?
Before Columbus’ arrival, there were already millions of people living in America, who we could say had “discovered it."
Tintingate
Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children's literature.
A Cartographic Narrative
Visualizing the 1760-1761 Slave Revolt in Jamaica, the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.