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Making African celebrity culture
Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?
Every Man Gotta Decide His Destiny
Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.
The Politics of Postapartheid Housing
Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.
Angry farmworkers on a tractor
Done 'debating' whether “Larney Jou Poes” is free speech? Let's talk about the conditions of farmworkers.
What next for Burkina Faso?
The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.
My barber loves these tunes
Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.
Zombie Harlem
Drummers Requiem on 125th Street in New York City.
The Afrobarometer
Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We'll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.
How to be an expatriate in Nigeria
Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.
Burkina Faso Is on The Boil
And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."
Children’s Books African Kids Could Relate To
While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.
Resources to sustain a movement
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?
Take your madam on a social justice tour
Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.
The Dookoom Debate
What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?
Mali and Manhattan
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?