The real question about wildlife conservation
How did wildlife in Africa survive for millennia in together with people who never earned anything from it?
Essays
Where township tours don’t go
Who produced that $30 mug you bought at Cape Town International Airport on your way home?
What is the point of African Studies?
There's no agreement, but the vibrant discussions and interventions by African scholars give much hope that something new is fermenting in African Studies.
The short life and times of Bhele Dlunga of Marikana
Amid the violence of August 2012, one positive feature that stood out was the resilience of the autonomous organization of workers and independent trade unions in Marikana.
Falling into an uneasy sleep
It took the writer, later South Africa's ambassador to Sri Lanka, 30 years to talk to her mother about rape. Her mother's rape.
Is a Chinese education the best shot at success in Africa?
Pragmatism dictates how many young Tanzanians view a Chinese education: A Chinese education was seen as a logical pathway to securing well-paying reliable employment.
The South African Youths
An edited version of this post appeared in the South African newspaper, City Press, as part of "Thought We Had Something Going," an e-anthology exploring post-1994 experiences.
The Worker with a Pen
In his life and books, Alex La Guma struggled for a society in which all people could find their humanity, argues his friend Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
What’s bad for America’s children
Liberians should not be guinea pigs in an experiment to transform public education into a market opportunity for foreign capital.
The bad immigrants
Few immigrants make the connection between their immigration status and the potential for deportation if they came into contact with the criminal justice system.
A man of the Namibian people
Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, who died at 92 on 9 June 2017, was one of the founders of Namibia's modern liberation movement that led the fight for political independence.
For us, Zimbabweans, South Africa is home
We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.
Biafra as memoir
By volume, the most significant body of writing on Biafra is neither history nor fiction, but memoir.
Nigerians: Gays, as long as they’re not our gays, are okay
Reflecting on the April 2017 visit of openly gay CNN business news presenter Richard Quest to Nigeria.
Against the romance of study abroad
Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”
Dakar’s African Renaissance
A Kenyan scientist wonders how Senegalese found ways to blend African spirituality with Islam.
The legacy of Biafra and the idea of being Nigerian
If being Nigerian meant anything, the presidency wouldn’t be rotated every eight years between the North and South or along tribal lines.
The problem of white supremacy is not rocket science
I was losing my temper. I was sitting in the cinema in central London watching LA
Thinking aloud with Stuart Hall
The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.
The Indian-African alliance
Little attention is given to how Indians are viewed and treated not only on the African continent, but by peoples of African descent across the world.