The Hissène Habré “political and legal soap opera”
In recent weeks media coverage of African criminals and their victims have been dominated by capture
History
French Tropicalism
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.
Okonjo-Wahala
Nigeria's very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She's the "African Renaissance" candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?
The Invisible Christians
A big part of the story that is being missed about Invisible Children is that they're firmly rooted in Evangelical Christianity.
A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
The Beatles, Black Sabbath and Africa in 2050
No that’s not a stadium rock concert, it’s the musical references in the introduction to a
Ruth Bader Ginsburg knows her constitutions
The South African Constitution and the emerging rights jurisprudence of the country's Constitutional Court are, demonstrably, influential.
January in Cairo IV: the two faces of Egyptian art
Om Kalthoum, the late great Egyptian singer, stands in the studio of Khaled Hafez. Her eyes are
The Whitney Soundtrack
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
The meaning of February 11, 1990
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela--after 27 years--was released from prison.
The Two Sudans
On July 6 2011, the world’s diplomatic elite flocked to one of the globe’s most underdeveloped
Mdu Ntuli’s ‘Izikhokho Show’
You’ll excuse our South African focus today here and on Twitter. A burger chain writes in
Intellectual Property Propaganda
Intellectual property protection has never been shown to promote economic development in developing countries.
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Al-Andalus in East Africa
The clear signs of African influence on the Arabian Peninsula and the cultural fluidity that exists throughout the Indian Ocean.
Google Mandela
You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While