Search Result(s) for: “apartheid”
Unions in crisis
Has the trade union form outlived its usefulness for workers?
West Africa just can’t get a break
My latest roundup of happenings that couldn't get the full standalone post treatment.
In honor of Rose Lomathinda Chibambo
Rose Chilambo was a prominent leader in the fight against British colonialism and the first woman cabinet minister in independent Malawi.
In Search of the “African Middle Class”
Who would guess that a little over a decade ago Africa was mostly described as "the hopeless continent"?
Decolonizing the COVID-19 response
Looking beyond the West to understand how to manage pandemics without choosing between saving lives or livelihoods. Live on YouTube Tuesday. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs
Except for one-year, when Mohamed Morsi was President, modern Egypt has only been ruled by military regimes
The Burning
The task for the new generation of South African activists is to reimagine power. That means resisting the impulse to use power in a way that demeans and cheapens and exploits.
It’s good for the future of cinema that Africa exists
Reviving our #MovieNight feature: A fortnightly feature rounding up movie news.
South Africa’s gaping wounds
If there is no material justice and investment in healing the generations of harm enacted onto South Africans, the rot in the country's wounds will overcome them.
Badvertising and the Soweto Uprising
The worst crime of a new ad "celebrating" the martyrs of 1976 is the message does not accord with the realities of young black South Africans.
Lilian Thuram’s burden
Why should black players have the burden of calling out racism, while white players don't feel compelled to do the same?
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Two Sudans
During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan's independence struggle.
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
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.
Kwame Nkrumah and Israel
Israel projected itself as a plucky postcolonial nation. Many African nations and leaders bought into it. Israel's occupation of the Sinai in 1967 changed that.