
“Converting Eviction”
A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
The fate of Cameroon's women's national football team, like much else in the country, is a reflection of the sorry state of its politics.
How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s shaped Robert Mugabe.
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
The author on why she felt compelled to write another book on Nkrumah. This time on Western powers smearing Nkrumah as a Communist.
The German metal band Rammstein's video for 'Auslander' wants it both ways: a critique of colonialism and sex tourism, but right-wing neo-nazis can also enjoy the fascist iconography.
An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium's infamous AfricaMuseum brings.
The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people.
When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.
France no longer has an excuse to hold on to Senegal's cultural heritage. Senegal has a place for it.
For one, take economic management out of the control of neoliberal technocrats.
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?
The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.
In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.
What will it take to get Germany to own up fully to the atrocities it committed during the Genocide in Namibia?
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
For France's former colonies in Africa to enjoy true independence, they need to control over their own money and budgets.