Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
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What next for Burkina Faso?
The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.
Obviously, this is not working
Former Africa Is a Country fellow, Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo, based in Ouagadougou talks to Bamba Ndiaye of The Africanist Podcast on the general situation in Burkina Faso the day after the coup there.
On Safari
On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?
From Cairo to Cornell
The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.
Africa’s first children problem
No matter where they are, the children of African heads-of-state live lives comically far-removed from those of the average citizen in their home countries.
Food is power
The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famineof biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food hasnever just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Foodis identity.
A Long List of New Films
I'm still waiting for that entrepreneur who'll start a Netflix for African films. I'll be a customer.
The old is dying and the young ones have just been born
These young ones who have just been born do not respect authority simply because the rules say they should.
Africa is a Horse
What is it with the long practice in British racing of adding an African appellation to a race horse's name. Most African countries now have at least one horse name after it.
Living up to its Pan-African dimensions
Filmmakers Newton Aduaka and Haile Gerima and film critic and scholar, Mbye Cham, assess Fespaco 2013.
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany's a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
Mali’s Elections: First Thoughts on Round Two
It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.
Julius Malema’s EFF and the South African Left
It is not often that analysts of diametrically opposed ideological tastes in South Africa agree, except about Julius Malema.
The two mutually irreconcilable Nelson Mandelas
Both Nelson Mandela’s historical role in the South African transition to democracy and his own management of his legacy paved the way for vacuous treatments of his life.
How to own history
Five films pointing to new directions for African cinema — by some of the most exciting young filmmakers from the continent.
Resources to sustain a movement
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?