No higher form of hypocrisy
Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
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Suburban Bliss
Is the new benchmark in South African cinema “Happiness Is A Four Letter Word"?
Is it too late now to say sorry?
The IMF is now acknowledges its neoliberal agenda over the last couple of decades was a mistake. Should we take them at their word.
What is happening at the Durban International Film Festival?
As with our last movie night post, we need to start with the bad news. 1. The Durban International Film Festival (or DIFF), one of the most important film festivals on the African continent, has been through some turmoil lately. With only a couple months to go to DIFF, the festival manager Sarah Dawson as […]
Weekend Music Break No.96
Back to our regularly scheduled music break for your weekend! Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that what we’re taking a break from, so this week labor is a theme. However, so is liberation, and therefore perhaps fittingly, Haiti is too. To kick the series of videos off, we have a nice premiere from Burkina Faso’s Art Melody! Check […]
If you love me, help me grow Ghana
It’s hard not to imagine what could have been, or indeed could be in postcolonial Ghana if the political will and right management was in place.
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead
Their voices, sharp and angry, shook me from my slumber. I didn’t know the language, but I instantly knew the translation. So I groped for the opening in the mosquito net, shuffled from my downy white bed to the window, threw back the stained tan curtain, and squinted into the light of a new day […]
Kenya’s Refugee “Problem”
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
Julius Malema’s Tailored Revolution
The color red, berets, and plain workers’ clothing have all become potent aesthetic symbols for South Africa's EFF.
Intersectionality and Economics
Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.
The legacy of Albert Johanneson
Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.