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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.
Shadow and Axed
The latest installment of our film news series, #MovieNight.
Pan African Space Station, NYC
A periodic, pop-up live radio studio, a performance and exhibition space, a research platform and living archive.
Inequality and more inequality
Reading maps, the interventionist state and another $15 billion missing from Nigeria's government.
Uptown griots
Malians started arriving in New York City in the 1980s, numbering about 8,000 now. They also brought their music.
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.
Anti-racism without race
Italy also lacks a fully developed movement against racism led by people of color. It doesn't help that white activists prefers to racism as xenophobia.
All you need to know about Ghana’s December 2016 elections
We asked a group of experts — journalists, academics and an architect — a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?
Shutting Down Dadaab Endangers Refugees
Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.
Yahya Jammeh’s tribalism
How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.
The crisis around Lake Chad
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
The work of historical fiction
How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre?
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
White masks in Tunisia
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
Was Mohandas Gandhi a racist?
Debates about Gandhi represents a deeper crisis about belonging, entitlement and exclusion in postcolonial Africa.