Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
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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.
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?
Africa In The New Century
This planetary turn of the African predicament will constitute the main cultural and philosophical event of the 21st century, argues Achille Mbembe.
The State of South African Political Life
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
The universal right to breathe
Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?
Towards people’s power
Anti-authoritarian struggles on the continent aren’t just fighting for democracy, but they are also reimagining it.
Animating the oral tradition
A new Disney short film series dramatizes traditional African storytelling for the big screen. Does it succeed?
Apartheid Israel
Is it fair to compare Israel to Apartheid South Africa? And no, making the comparison is not antisemitic.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
How to build Palestinian solidarity internationally
Addressing antisemitism in anti-Zionist politics and what Africans can do about the occupation.
The gentrification of African studies
Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.
When the ‘President of the rich’ met the ‘Black President’
What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.
A world reimagined in Black
By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.
The idea of a borderless world
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.