The news from South Africa
...or the constant deferral of reconciliation
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The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
Weekend Special, No 1002
…and researchers working on and from South Africa–that include Achille Mbembe, Robin DG Kelley, Marissa Moorman,
The Chronic Sketches “A New Cartography”
…time. First, in an interview with Bregtje van der Haak, Achille Mbembe declares that, “the densification
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
The student uprisings in South Africa
Demands for racial justice and concerns about economic inequality are coming together in a powerful call for change that cannot be ignored or easily dismissed.
Postapartheid South Africa’s negative moment
The political theorist Achille Mbembe, from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, describes South Africa
What’s the matter with … R.W. Johnson
And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?
More than a Weekend Special
African war criminals face The Hague. As for U.S. war criminals, they get to paint victims of their illegal wars—those whose bodies they broke into subjects of art.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
Afrique 3.0, Version 2.0
The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?
Cameroon is Cameroon
On the arrest and detention of Cameroonian writer and scholar, Patrice Nganang.
Future so bright
All things equal, we should have a new website within the next couple of weeks.
What is wrong with this headline?
Europe's new provincialism exacts a human toll that can only be accepted with a mind-set that subscribes to nothing more than a new barbarism.
Ignore and rule
What do Europeans do when they hear the war waged by the government of Ethiopia has killed more people than the war in Ukraine?
Pogbacité
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?
The US and France backs Cameroon’s reign of terror
When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?
The global ways of white supremacy
White supremacy always relies on an international interdependence as Trump's support for white extremists in South Africa shows.
Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
Meditations on Paul Biya’s Reelection in Cameroon
The Biya regime's grip on power has been exposed more than ever before. It is revolting to watch.