The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
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If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.
English Professor and Editor of Brittle Paper, recommends five books she’s been reading.
John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses' obliquely tells the history of migration to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
…fine post written by historian Laurent Dubois (references: Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future
The truth of our global age is that autochthony, nativism, or heritage no longer define us exclusively. So, solidarity based on phenotype or heritage is dangerous.
Achille Mbembe (the links are to previous references of Mbembe on this blog) gave a lecture
Delegates to 'Global Africa' at Oxford University write about how Zionists and their apologists target the academy.
The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
Apartheid's prisons tolerated 'National Geographic; For Nelson Mandela, who knew better, it was porn.
Nostalgia for Gaddafi reflects a depressing understanding of African politics which rules that a dictator is better than a chaotic political void.
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
The leading African writers and creative artists who are reimagining Christian thought and the several Christian-inspired groups who are transforming religious practice.