The new ‘invisible enemy’
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter.
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Belonging — Why South Africans Refuse to let Africa in
Most South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.
Israel and the asylum seekers
If Israel doesn't send asylum seekers back to the countries they fled from, it deports them to "third countries."
The political viability of anti-immigrationism
European nations increasingly look to the physical space of African nations for potential solutions to their racial and demographic anxieties.
Italian fascists quoting Samora Machel and Sankara
The use of Marxist-inspired arguments, often distorted, to support racist or nationalist political positions, is known as "rossobrunismo" (red-brownism) in Italy.
Britain’s Racist Election
In Britain in 2015, racism is being used to dismantle the consensus on the welfare state, and to undo the greatest achievement of British democracy.
Belonging is not a sport
The reality of any society, any nation, and of our world, is much messier than picking a soccer team.
Afrophobic metamorphosis
Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted — it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.
Africans Migrate in Africa All the Time
The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.
Punished for being African
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
Joyful Melancholy
Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released "Mélancolie Joyeuse," a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.
Flight of the Boers
South Africa's lead anti-land reform organization is cultivating its relationship with the international far right.
Pandemic in the city
How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Johannesburg cannot police its future
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarized urban policing and how we imagine the post-COVID city.
Uncovering ‘undesirable whites’ in the colonial archive
Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies — especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.
What are courts for?
Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.
Transnational eugenics
Few works sufficiently recognize the truly transnational character of the eugenics movement, and how colonial Africa served as the launching pad for it.
In the middle of the desert
African refugees walk to Jerusalem in mass protest against indefinite detention by the Israeli state.
A Black woman in Bali
During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?
The house of migrants
An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.