• Rasna Warah

The burial of African languages by Africans themselves has ensured our total immersion into colonial culture.

• Deborah Leter

Francophonie has served to obscure the harms caused by neocolonial projects in Africa, projects that are themselves a reflection of the racism within France’s borders.

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

Senegalese writer Mbougar Sarr on how we are actually informed about symbols we want to bring down, and about those we wish to commemorate.

• Khadim Ndiaye
• Salian Sylla

What explains this reluctance to discuss the permanence of symbols honoring slave traders and colonialists in the public spaces in both France and its former colonies?

• Florian Bobin

France’s history of violence policing left a legacy of law and disorder, targeting dissidents, in its former colonies.

• Thomas Courtright

The parallels between COVID-19 and the 1910s in Kampala, when the colonial regime used a series of plagues to cut Ugandans out of the capital city.

• Masauko Chipembere

A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.

• Zahra Moloo

Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

• April Zhu

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.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel
• Mame Fatou-Niang

What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?

• Lynn M. Thomas

The intersecting dynamics of class and gender, changing beauty ideals, and the expansion of consumer capitalism in Africa.

• P. Wenzel Geissler
• Ruth J. Prince

COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.

• Joe Kobuthi

The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famine of biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food has never just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Food is identity.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Henning Melber

Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.

• Smith Ouma
• Alex Dyzenhaus

Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.

• Lissell Quiroz

New French film on decolonization in Africa and Asia incapable of avoiding the Eurocentrism the filmmakers wanted to steer clear of.

• Haythem Guesmi

It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.

• William Shoki

South Africa introduces a new law which allows traditional leaders along with third parties to decide for communities, without their consent.