What if postcolonial regimes use stories of your past to justify their rule?
The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.
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The ‘Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy’ claim
Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.
After the scramble
It's time to return Africa's vinyl records.
Fantastically Corrupt
Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?
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.
Paul Biya, the last Kaiser
A meditation on the oldest ruler in the world.
Skewing sexuality
The use of Evangelical Christianity to oppose progressive policies on sexuality education in schools is another example of Ghana’s march to the right.
The market decides if we are free
Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.
Zimbabwe’s forgotten football history
Zimbabwe’s national football was under black control decades before independence — but the colonial legacy of racial segregation still haunts.
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.
The necropolitics of COVID-19
COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.
This is not an accident
The pernicious belief, is founded on ignorance and prejudice, that certain women, including those with HIV, have no right to have children.
The rebirth of the Nigerian left?
What has the world's Moët drinking capital and a world leader in global indices of private jet ownership to do with left politics?
Buying back our things
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
African homophobia and the colonial roots of African conservatism
Turn any homophobic corner in Africa and you're guaranteed to run into a delirious celebration of "African culture," but there's nothing African about homophobia.
Gender in Cameroon’s anglophone crisis
Women have undertaken measures to cope and resist against the backdrop of Anglophone — Francophone tensions in Cameroon.
The many lives of Nawal El Saadawi
El Sadaawi died on March 21, 2021. Her complex and evolving positions mean there is more than one version of her to commemorate.
Another essentializing moment?
Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.
Kwame Nkrumah’s Cold War
The author on why she felt compelled to write another book on Nkrumah. This time on Western powers smearing Nkrumah as a Communist.