
Unthinking refugee studies
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?
There's no agreement, but the vibrant discussions and interventions by African scholars give much hope that something new is fermenting in African Studies.
Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”
We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent's universities.
Dan Magaziner gets to shake the hand of Paul Kagame, a man many consider a dictator at best and a war criminal at worst.
A political culture, often facilitated by social media, has emerged that many people experience as authoritarian and bullying.
Martin Legassick (1940-2016) was key to revisionist tradition among South African historians that made connections between apartheid and post-war capitalism.
Sam Moyo, who died in a car accident on 22 November 2015, was a leading authority on Zimbabwean agrarian, land, and environmental issues.
I no longer recall when exactly I met Sam. Maybe it was in the late 1970s
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.
The “Sankara Generation,” the young people taking on Burkina Faso's dictator, wants radical change. Does it include a better future for the country's women?
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
“We know… but we don’t know.” These were words that we heard often from Jeff Guy
The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics 'Come Back Africa,' late-1980s 'Mapantsula' and Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'
The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.