Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.
The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
We took the week off last week so we’re coming back at you extra strong today. For those of you trying to stay warm this winter and those of you keeping it cool this summer we’ve got ten tracks that’ll give you what you need. Kicking it off is Brooklyn-based Rwandan Iyadede. It’s been far too […]
Excerpt from a post Maria Hengeveld wrote over at Dan Moshenberg’s work blog Women In and Beyond the Global: … Not all research carried out is actually helpful or constructive in reducing the violence, as Marsha Henry, points out, in her piece, ‘Ten Reasons not To Write your Masters Dissertation on Sexual Violence in War’: […]
One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.
Miners at multinational Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa, speaking to (South African) Sunday Times reporter Lucky Biyase: ‘Whenever we ask for a wage increase, these companies plead poverty and threaten us with retrenchments. This is because they don’t want to pay money to black people. Why work when you don’t get […]
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
Here's a list of white dictators, including real world ones, who were either African or operated on the continent.
Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.
We hope the “women of Africa,” who are being discovered yet again, appreciate all the good work being done for them.