James Barnor, ever young
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
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Tunisia’s surveillance state
Mass monitoring poses a threat to democratic freedoms as the case of Tunisia shows.
Greening the Sahel isn’t enough
Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.
The best solution is coexistence
War, peace, and cooperation among herder-farmers in northeastern Uganda.
Fear and loathing in the time of COVID-19
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
A short film about African migrants in Barcelona
How does one hold on to a deeply rooted sense of self, a cultural identity, and make new paths to adapt and make new forms of home?
What’s in a name
What we don't talk about when we spend time learning about Lupita Nyong'o's family and getting her name right.
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
This is my country
The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.
Paying the ultimate price
COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.
Uncovering ‘undesirable whites’ in the colonial archive
Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies — especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.
Dog day afternoon
The basic lesson from Halima Ouardiri’s short film, “Clebs,” about over 750 stray dogs living in a Moroccan sanctuary: We behave just like dogs.
Representing northern Ghana
A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.
Farther on from Zion
To consider Bob Marley today demands we look back across distance to the place and age that brought him to us.
An ambivalent sense of belonging
Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.
Homeless in the city
The periodic evictions of poor families in Nairobi follows in a long tradition in Kenya, dating to colonialism, to keep the city as a space for the elite.
Face-me-I-face-you
The irony of preaching social distancing to those living in close urban dwellings in Lagos exposes the crass nature of class disparities in Nigeria.