The Last Founding Father of African Decolonization
It is not hard to understand the iconic status of Nelson Mandela and the overflow of emotion his death has provoked in the Pan-African world.
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Africa for Africans
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States were not only locked in an ideological struggle with each other, but also competed with an anticolonial vision of modernity, an ideology which is still influential today.
What’s With The Empty Seats
South Africa is hosting the African Cup of Nations, but few locals go to the stadiums. People have more important things to do than watch football?
Full circle
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
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O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.
As armas não só de fogo
Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.
The ‘Big Man’ Syndrome in Africa
Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules?
Songs for the Blue Sharks of Capo Verde
The first in our Africa Nations Cup 2013 playlists; to drown out the commentator if they are annoying you during the game.
Is north African football in decline?
North African teams failed to get out of the group stages at the 2013 African Cup of Nations. The best spin is that at least we got to see their future potentials.
Ronald Reagan’s Africa
Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat
As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.
George Houser: US ally of African liberation struggles
An ally of a who’s who of revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Oliver Tambo, and Kenneth Kaunda.
The US nostalgia for racist regimes in Africa
The terrorist Dylan Roof is by no means the first white American to find common cause with racist colonial regimes in Africa.
When things fall apart
Against a backdrop of global collapse, one exhibition used Chinua Achebe’s classic to hold space for voices from the Global South — and asked who gets to imagine the future.
On eagle’s wings
Nigeria’s Men's football team does best when no one expects them to.
A fictional portrait of a national dream
Cristina De Middel self-published book "The Afronauts," revisits the 1960s shortlived, abandoned project by Zambia's government to send the first African astronauts to Mars
Trump’s beef with Nigeria
Trump’s threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future.