Rouge Impératrice
Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.
Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.
Are plans for ‘reform’ of West African currency, fueled by anticolonial sentiment, merely ‘rebranding’ the status quo?
The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.
It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.
A visit to a museum in a French port city, brings up questions about how slavery is remembered.
The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.
What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.
There is a long history of white artists representing black people in France, reproducing stereotypes and failing to capture the people they claim to represent.
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?
The 2010 World Cup was tumultuous for France; both an athletic failure and a site of social conflict. The French Football Federation doesn't want to repeat it.
Fascists love Kylian Mbappé and hate Karim Benzema. Between these two lies the problem of romanticizing the French team as an African team.
en ce moment, le plus français de tous les français est un gamin noir d’origine algérienne et camerounaise nommé Kylian Mbappé.
Emmanuel Macron's Lagos visit came and went in a long tradition of diversionary state visits by Western politicians who condescend to Nigerians.
You want to troll French fascists? Tell them the truth: the most French man in the world right now is a black kid called Kylian Mbappé.
Tunisia played England in France '98. English hooligans attacked Tunisians in the streets of Marseille. Algerians came to Tunisians' rescue.
It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.
Today marks ten years since Aimé Césaire's death. What would he have thought about the state of the former French colonies today?
The stuff we couldn't cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France's presence, as somehow radical.
Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron's "Africa Speech" in Ouagadougou?