The Permanent Exile
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
An ally of a who’s who of revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Oliver Tambo, and Kenneth Kaunda.
Diego Maradona is arguably the greatest football player of all time. In Eduardo Galeano's prose, he becomes even greater.
How a Mexican show helped to construct a patchy and ill-defined “Latin American” identity.
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.
My first introduction to Comrade Nadine was through her writing during my student activist days in
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans artists and intellectuals moved to Ghana as part of attempts to redefine their relationship to citizenship in the U.S. as well as their African identities.
A friend who knew I was once a broadcast journalist with Joy FM recently asked me
The BBC news presenter Komla Dumor, who passed away this weekend from cardiac arrest, was an
Tonight, the Afrikaaps crew, the South African musical about the history of the Afrikaans language, dedicated their
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjlPiJlihE&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Zim Ngqawana (b. 1959), a key member of the second generation of South African jazz
In the last year fans of South African jazz had to contend with the passing of musicians
Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.
Johnny Issel, who has died at age 68, was a prominent activist for leftist social movements in 1980s South Africa.