More morbid symptoms
Much of what passes for politics these days is actually just anti-politics: not a function of too much politicization, but a severe lack of it.
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Are Nigerians the New Asians?
Amy Chua's racist nonsense about "model minorities," peddling the lie that elites are on top because they're better.
The Dutch ‘King of Africa’
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.
Djinns in Berlin
At the 13th Berlin Biennale, works from Zambia and beyond summon unseen forces to ask whether solidarity can withstand the gaze of surveillance.
The role of diaspora in revolution
Sudanese living abroad are key to the uprising: raising awareness and support for political and social transformation back home.
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
Herded like cattle
Europeans generally travel effortlessly to and through Africa with their humanity intact. Why do they go to such lengths to demean us when we travel through Europe?
Empire’s middlemen
From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath.
Fueling rightwing populism
Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.
The Infiltrators
What will Netanyahu's re-election mean for African immigrants and refugees in Israel?
The myth of Trump’s white working-class support
The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Europe’s Eritrean “Problem”
Eritrean refugees — one of the largest groups seeking safety in Europe — have been a primary target of those wanting to close Europe’s borders.
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
The two Africas
In the latest controversies about race and ancient Egypt, both the warring ‘North Africans as white’ and ‘black Africans as Afrocentrists’ camps find refuge in the empty-yet-powerful discourse of precolonial excellence.
Return from the Promised Land
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
Between Two Fires
A migrant's fight for a place in Germany.
The myth of South African nationality
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Multimodal memories
Exile and memory from East Africa to the United Kingdom and back again.
Memories are to be shared
It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.