White masks in Tunisia
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
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If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night
The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.
The Delasi Edition
This selection of smooth Afropop illustrates Delasi's transnational vision for contemporary African art and music.
Europe’s refugee colonialism
EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.
What lessons on fascism can we learn from Africa’s colonial past?
In the 1930s fascism’s face was immediately recognizable in colonial Africa. It was neither a foreign concept nor an external threat in Africa.
Every nation needs a team kit
An Australian sports apparel company makes shirts for low profile national soccer teams, including a number of African ones.
Music Break No.102 — Winter In America edition
“… The stakes are very high: literally, survival of organized human society in any decent form,” Noam Chomsky tells Brooklyn Rail, as the former British colony of the United States of America, inaugurates its 45th president. So, this weekend’s Music Break goes out to our American family, who are set to face four years of struggle […]
African inequality rising
Every country in Africa is today less equal than it was in 2010; for the African masses the trickle-down benefits of economic growth have been relatively small.
Opening Angola’s past to public debate
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
MLK was a Pan-African
On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.