Dispatch from Berlin
“What is the difference between refugees and ‘normal’ citizens besides the fact that the former had to flee from their homes? There is none.”
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Cowries and Rice
The global impact of the exchanges and experiences between China and Africa.
October 15, 1987: The Murder of Thomas Sankara
Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”
Bigger and bigger
Every month, Hipsters Don't Dance send us their "Top World Carnival Tunes." This is September 2015's chart.
Rewriting the Black Mediterranean
Igiaba Scego is one of the most prominent voices of a new cohort of Black writers in Italy.
President dos Santos and the ruling MPLA: Afraid of Angolans
if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola's state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands.
When Pelé ended a war
From July 1967 to January 1970, Nigeria was engaged in civil war. Apparently, one person could make the war pause: The G.O.A.T., Pelé.
Memory, between nostalgia and archive
The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.
The technological circuits of the African diaspora
Given this history of Black dispersal and displacement, what might a liberatory mobility look like?
The Memory Box
The digitization of oral histories of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.
Morocco’s ‘African’ identity
It will be Moroccans overseas that will give Gnawa music and culture an extra push towards the center of Morocco’s cultural identity.
George Houser: US ally of African liberation struggles
An ally of a who’s who of revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Oliver Tambo, and Kenneth Kaunda.
The holy fire that burns in the home
An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of 'Paths To Freedom', a film on Namibian liberation.
Ride with Malitia Malimob
Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.