Reading List: Dotun Ayobade
What can the lives of the women behind Afrobeat tell us about creativity, resistance, and the interplay of power and pleasure in 1970s Nigeria?
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Reading List: Edna Bonhomme
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
The Return of Muammar Gaddafi
Nostalgia for Gaddafi reflects a depressing understanding of African politics which rules that a dictator is better than a chaotic political void.
Is your mobile phone company seeing like a state?
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
Nativism and narrow nationalism in South African politics
The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.
Biya forever
As Cameroon nears its presidential elections, a disintegrated opposition paves the way for the world’s oldest leader to claim a fresh mandate.
Zionism and global African studies
Delegates to 'Global Africa' at Oxford University write about how Zionists and their apologists target the academy.
Notes on the South African Experiment
Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture
Liberating Ourselves from our Liberators
The truth of our global age is that autochthony, nativism, or heritage no longer define us exclusively. So, solidarity based on phenotype or heritage is dangerous.
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
The Prisoner and his Pin-up Girl
Apartheid's prisons tolerated 'National Geographic; For Nelson Mandela, who knew better, it was porn.
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
Progress is exhausting
Pedro Pinho’s latest film follows a Portuguese engineer in Guinea-Bissau, exposing how empire survives through bureaucracy, intimacy, and the language of “development.”
Procès et tribulations de Rokia Traoré
Détenue en Italie puis en Belgique pendant prèsde sept mois, la chanteuse malienne est engagée depuis 2019 dans une bataille judiciaire avec son ex-conjoint belge pour la garde de leur fille. Entre accusations d’abus et mandats d’arrêt, le feuilleton semble approcher de sa conclusion.
“Converting Eviction”
A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
The trials and tribulations of Rokia Traoré
Detained for over six months, Malian singer Rokia Traoré has been locked in a legal battle with her ex-spouse over custody of their daughter since 2019. Between allegations of abuse and arrest warrants, the case appears to be nearing its conclusion.
Born of struggle
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.