The Mobile Phone Chimera
Two recent articles highlight the fact that the digital divide is very much still with us, and in fact new kinds of divides may be opening up.
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The Black Maroons of Colombia
The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.
Liberian identity for a new generation
Young people in Monrovia create a new music genre. Junior Freeman is at the heart of this musical revolution.
Lady Gaga lives in Lagos
Goldie’s allusions to madness typify a common theme present in the music of many of today’s successful female artists.
The ‘African chambermaid’ and the media
Nafissatou Diall's rape accusation against Strauss-Kahn plays out in front of wider struggles by African women to secure justice and well-being.
A nice saxophone solo
Pop culture is often at its best when it accurately reflects reality, so it’s no surprise that our music, like our history, is repeating itself.
Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.
Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
The Rwandan Glass Ceiling
When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.
Africa is a Country
Must be our blog title. Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill’s Congress Blog about US foreign aid in a piece about policing the already shrinking foreign aid budget that’s currently only 1.5% of all federal spending: It does not matter how little the amount sent to foreign countries, it is the principal of […]
Independence Day: June 27th, Djibouti
Earlier this year, Djiboutians marched the streets of their capital (where more than half of all Djiboutian citizens live), rallying against their sitting president who changed the constitution in 2010 allowing him to run for another term. It didn’t pan out as planned, with the president (who replaced his uncle as leader of the ruling […]
When Malcolm X went to Africa
"As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out."