The forgotten history of migration to Africa
While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.
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A female Secretary-General will not change how the UN works
Women say it is their turn to lead the United Nations. But can a female head of the UN change the organization’s work culture and correct the power imbalances among UN member states?
Africans and the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.
Probing the depths of the CIA’s misdeeds in Africa
The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?
Reading List: Véronique Tadjo
To address a difficult and traumatic subject like Ebola, the writer Véronique Tadjo turned to oral literature for inspiration.
Who is benefiting here?
The UKs deportation pact with Rwanda is being likened to a "human trafficking deal." It reflects the state of Rwandan politics.
Archiving pan-Africanism
A project - helmed by historians Benjamin Talton and Jean Allman - to archive post-independence African revolutions, including Kwame Nkrumah's personal and professional papers.
The junta belt
What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?
Israel’s Sharpeville moment
It is often imagined that world opinion was always united in its opposition to apartheid in South Africa — it wasn’t. Today, global indifference to Palestine is changing too.
Unearthing Subterranean Knowledge
If the savannas of West Africa are a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.
Imperial belonging and the weaponization of the sea
The legacy of France’s colonial violence in the Indian Ocean is one stone that contemporary mainstream media tends to leave unturned.
You can’t kick politics out of football
Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world’s most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
What to do about the South African economy?
Some progressive economists argue that a bigger budget deficit is the solution to the country’s socio-economic woes. But it isn’t that straightforward.
Rooting for everybody black
The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.
Books of 2015
A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.
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.
The Radical Historian
Martin Legassick (1940-2016) was key to revisionist tradition among South African historians that made connections between apartheid and post-war capitalism.
The Myth of the African travel writer
African travelers, it would seem, must still justify their movements across the planet (whether the motives be professional, economic or political).
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
What does Brexit mean for Africa?
The short answer: The UK doesn’t have the same influence on the continent that it did decades ago. And Brexit will be further proof of that.