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On our year-end publishing break, we consider: what is the work and role of little magazines like our own?
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A tribute to Ron Dellums, radical
Former US Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who passed away recently, played a leading role in the global fight against South African Apartheid in the 1980s.
Eritrea beyond the media fanfare
So far, the only real beneficiaries of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea are Ethiopia and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
The contemporary state of Ethiopia
2018 witnessed a fundamental shift in how Ethiopia's ruling party governs. How did it come about, what is incomplete about this transition, and what happens next.
Family ties
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.
Pentecostal republic
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.
Two trips to Juba
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.
Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
Winnie Mandela and the historians
Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.
An enduring European tradition
An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.
The forgotten kingdom
The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.
Buying back our things
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.
Hopes for a Green October in Sudan
What Sudan's history of protest against authoritarianism can teach the current generation.
Scenes from a youthful uprising
After years of divide and rule by President Omar al-Bashir, the youth of Sudan have united to push him out.
Magical realism in Accra
The film, "The Burial of Kojo," sparks a vital conversation about the intersections of heritage, politics, and spirituality in Ghana and in Africa at large.
Ethiopia’s capitalist turn
In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.
Lumumba Lives
Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?
Decolonizing the museum
How should Belgium's Africa Museum address its colonial past?
In search of Ethiopia’s past and present
The film "Finding Sally" grapples with Ethiopia's past, but may romanticize its present.
Fanon Forever
Fanon is your revolutionary's revolutionary. His life and work continue to inspire and empower a new generation of dreamers and fighters.