Lula can set the bar higher for a new presidency
Lula's challenge in Brazil: To be successful with proposed reforms, he’d need to take back the anti-systemic appeal stolen by the far-right.
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A little bit of African thinking
The profound influence, often underplayed, that great African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral had on Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.
What’s good for investors isn’t good for Africans
How Africa’s pension funds risk becoming instruments of Africa’s neoliberal takeover.
When people cough, black stuff comes out
In Mozambique, a troubling pattern of land grabbing, pollution and death. This time at the hands of a Brazilian-owned coal mine.
A thousand portraits of a loyal man
The new film about Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella is one dimensional. It should not distract from Marighella's legacy.
Tales of a civilized slavery
Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.
Voltamos a Africa
Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro's toxic, racist, rightwing regime?
What the Jair Bolsonaro regime in Brazil means for Africa
Brazil is the world’s second-largest African nation, but just elected an outright rightwing racist as president. It can't be good for the continent.
Black bodies will fall in Brazil
What does the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro mean for Brazilians of African descent?
The masters of the improbable
In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil's World Cup squad.
Not Socrates’ Brazil
Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.
Brazil is Haiti’s national football team
Most national teams have 12 starting players — 11 on the field, and their fans in the stands. Brazil’s has a 13th player: Haitains.
Let them occupy
Housing struggles Brazil are a good case study to help us understand the limits of what is possible for urban housing movements in South Africa.
Na Moita–Photographing the Settlements of Rio de Janeiro
“Na Moita” is slang in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for an action that cannot be carried
Africa is a Radio: Episode #15 – World Carnival 2016 Special!
The first Africa is a Radio episode of 2016 goes to Carnival with special guests Hipsters Don’t
Bringing Brazil’s Northeastern culture to the world
I’ve never been to the Northeast of Brazil, but I have paid R$5 to walk through
Africa is a Radio: Episode #14
2015’s last episode of Africa is a Radio features a snippet from an extended interview with
Brazil’s Cold Welcome
How accusations that a visiting African-American professor was denied entry to a high end hotel, present an opportunity to address racism in Brazil.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #13
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from
When Pelé ended a war
From July 1967 to January 1970, Nigeria was engaged in civil war. Apparently, one person could make the war pause: The G.O.A.T., Pelé.