Libya’s Race Problem
Colonel Gaddafi's alleged use of "black mercenaries," has put the question of race in Libya's revolution front and center.
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Germany’s Marshall Plan for Africa
What are the political dynamics that may have led to the adoption of Germany's ambitious framework to reinvigorate Africa's development.
My New York Times column about Cape Town
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
Mozambique’s borders
The dynamics of refuge-seeking in southern Mozambique between 1895 and the 1980s.
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.
How many immigrants live in South Africa?
The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.
No amount of foreign currency can justify this
The dire, often fatal, conditions that African, and in this case specifically Kenyan, domestic workers are facing in the Middle East.
En route to the unknown
African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.
The other route to the American dream
With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US — via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.
An oblique public voice
Revisiting the films of Malian-born author and filmmaker Manthia Diawara.
Border politics
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
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.
Sex work on the other side of the sea
Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don't focus on migrant women's motives.
Soccer capitalism
Soccer academies in Africa sprang from European club interventions with varied success, but, as examples in Ghana prove, they can be sites of local, entrepreneurial spirit.
Africans Migrate in Africa All the Time
The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.
The strange case of Portugal’s returnees
White settler returnees to Portugal in 1975, and the history of decolonization, can help us understand the complicated category of refugee.
Citizens for hire
Kenya’s labor export model treats citizens as commodities, exploiting workers for remittances while neglecting domestic job creation.
Nepal’s new reality
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.
Nepal’s Gen Z reckoning
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment.
Writing whiteness, writing America
What happens when black and brown authors write about white people? Although novels by Chinelo Okparanta and Mohsin Hamid tread into this risky unknown, they do not go far enough.