Carceral colonialism
On the United Kingdom’s attempts to finance the construction of large-scale prison facilities in former colonies, to where it wants to deport undocumented migrants.
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Mauritania’s past doesn’t want to go away
The so-called “peaceful transition” in Mauritania, from colonialism to political independence, isn’t unanimously understood as such inside the country, and it reflects older rivalries.
Fanon’s mission
The works of Frantz Fanon can be read as architectural renderings of rights, futures, and generations toward a “very different Afro-futurism.”
“Converting Eviction”
A reflection—by one of the group’s artists—on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
The Ship from Cameroon
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.
The making of Mugabe’s intolerance
How an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s shaped Robert Mugabe.
The confrontation with France’s slave past
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
Kwame Nkrumah’s Cold War
The author on why she felt compelled to write another book on Nkrumah. This time on Western powers smearing Nkrumah as a Communist.
Is Rammstein racist?
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.
Renovating the AfricaMuseum
An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium's infamous AfricaMuseum brings.
Reclaiming the narrative of the Algerian revolt
The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people.
What is the Dangbe word for chameleon?
When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.
The Museum of Black Civilizations
France no longer has an excuse to hold on to Senegal's cultural heritage. Senegal has a place for it.
How to manage post-colonial African economies
For one, take economic management out of the control of neoliberal technocrats.
Ghana’s royal visitors
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.
A technocratic reformulation of colonialism
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.
Gods of Fiction
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
How did objects come to be in museums and who is entitled to own them?
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?
Decolonizing streets
The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.
Nelson Mandela and US imperialism
In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.