What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
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Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France's presence, as somehow radical.
Contemporary approaches to the legacy of colonialism tend to narrowly emphasize political agency as the solution to Africa’s problems. But agency is configured through historically particular relations of which we are not sole authors.
How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre?
As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project—creating the largest free-trade area in the world—we have some questions.
History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.
Choosing to focus on denouncing Palestinian violence is akin to asking them to passively accept their fate—to die quietly and not resist.
In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.
We asked about a dozen Africa Is a Country contributors what their favorite books of 2012 were. Here are their picks.
One of South Africa's leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.
Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.
How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?
Leila Hassan and Farouk Dhondy worked at the UK publication Race Today that chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.