The work of historical fiction
How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre?
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Pan-African aspirations by neoliberal means
As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project—creating the largest free-trade area in the world—we have some questions.
Ghana’s President and what the West wants to hear
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France's presence, as somehow radical.
What Would Julius Nyerere Do?
Recent and current leaders in Tanzania like to be compared to Mwalimu Nyerere. Take current president, John Magufuli. He has been working hard to claim Nyerere’s mantle.
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
Revolutionary intellectuals
History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.
Anti-black excellence
In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.
We are all Haitians
In memory of J. Michael Dash, the Caribbean thinker and literature scholar.
How not to change a curriculum
One of South Africa's leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.
Ben Turok’s commitments
Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.
African digital culture in context
How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?
Revisiting the Brixton struggle
Leila Hassan and Farouk Dhondy worked at the UK publication Race Today that chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about race.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Two trips to Juba
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.