Fearless in Nigeria
In this installment of our "Liner Notes," the Nigerian musician, Villy, writes about his band's EP, "Humananimals."
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How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire and now known as the DRC) was plunged into a civil conflict that soon turned into a political and constitutional crisis that besieged the country for almost five years. The Congo crisis challenged how the superpowers and the United […]
South Africa needs a new public debate
Much of the criticism about neoliberalism is coming from the dominant faction of the ANC, the center-left party trying to hold onto power.
“We Are All Many Things”
South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.
Irregular boundaries
First class cricket in South Africa, once a white man's preserve, is now technically open to all, but it is a game of money, dazzle, dancing girls and quick results.
Don’t kill yourself because of suffering
Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.
When Ghanaians put their arms around New York City
Today, 30,000 of the 235,000 Ghanaian immigrants to the US call New York City home.
Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
Too deep for mere outrage
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
Weekend Special, No. 1211
(1) Identity politics is neoliberalism, as Adolph Reed once said. And it delivers like clockwork. The hip hop producer Sean Diddy Combs (he produced Biggie Smalls) opened a for profit charter school in Harlem where he was born. Because–as he said–he would rather do “something about” education than just complain about it. (And he chose to “do it” with a […]
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron's apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.