Can Football Still be Political?
Chile's 2015 Copa America win won’t heal any of the political or social issues Chile is dealing with. But that's fine.
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What about this cartoon
What happened when an Argentinean cartoonist took inspiration from an iconic moment in African-American struggle, replaced the black athletes with monochrome white figures to make a point about gay rights.
Why is Facebook asking me how to pronounce my name?
Facebook has decided my name is weird and hard and I have to prevent awkward situations by teaching my “Friends” how to say it.
Hillary and Bill Clinton’s Past in Haiti
It’s surprising how little the failures and destruction of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s presence in Haiti have been brought up so far.
An Independence Manifesto
Black people should not be held not responsible for the social limits and ideologies undergirding legal structures.
Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC
In the 1970s, a Congolese painter named Tshibumba Kanda Matulu began to paint a history of what was then Zaire. This history, as the anthropologist Johannes Fabian pointed out when he collaborated with Kanda Matulu on a book some years later, was “not just a story, but an argument and a plea.” History is of […]
Colombia and the search for truth
The agreement to establish a truth commission for Colombia have the sides looking at the South African experience.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #12
Discussion on this episode of Africa is a Radio features a report back from Sean Jacobs on his recent trip home to Cape Town, a discussion on Kagame’s Rwanda and its relationship to the international courts, and finally a visit to the Americas centering in on Charleston, South Carolina and the Dominican Republic. The music selection […]
No country for widows
The astonishing lengths to which the South African state went to demean and diminish Marikana miners, dead and living, and their loved ones.
What Does Democracy Feel Like for Gay South Africans?
During a visit to Durban Pride, the authors conclude that democracy feels strange. For one, it feels like increased LGBTI visibility and increased backlash.
Cameras and the Indian Ocean
In 1883, the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash bin Said, commissioned a camera obscura room in the tower of his new palace, the House of Wonders. Royal family members were early enthusiasts and collectors of photographs, part of a fervor that swept the Indian Ocean’s urban enclaves. It may be surprising to realize how quickly photography became an indispensible […]
African films in Colombian cinemas
How would Colombian audiences react to films from Africa?