The first and only woman to be charged by the ICC
The trials and tribulations of Cote d'Ivoire's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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White Lives Matter
An angry and desperate review of the five phases of blackness: innocence and oblivion, confusion, awakening and shame, anger, and survival.
The Chikungunya land of Latin America
A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.
The shoulders that carried Ebola’s weight
Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Vampire teeth
Annual review: Hipsters Don't Dance's "Top 10 African-Caribbean Collaborations" of 2014
Havana and Washington: On African Time?
Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?
Race, class and domestic work in Latin America
The author on how she developed consciousness about the centrality of domestic work in her native Colombia and further afield
Some observations on race and security in South Africa
The writer, an anthropologist, gets a quick lesson on race and crime on a visit to South Africa.
Steven George Gerrard: A Man Apart
The remarkable thing about Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s reserve is that it never prevents him from protecting those whom he leads.
Dutch elites and blackface
Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.
Who is Dulcie September?
The author stars as the famed South African activist in a new play. Dulcie September was murdered by a conspiracy of South African and French death squads.
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa's second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
The Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
Can an African language literature prize be inherently Pan-African?
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Philippe Lacôte
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.