Africa’s Premier League
The story of Africa's long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.
Politics
No home for the “go-home blacks”
African refugees are systematically excluded from priority groups for resettlement in Western countries. The case of Canada.
Inequality and more inequality
Reading maps, the interventionist state and another $15 billion missing from Nigeria's government.
The business of lies
The Internet has lied to the gullible for years, and Africa's version of fake news sites have been carrying on the tradition.
The Ghost of the IMF’s Past
The IMF’s latest tussle with the government of Mozambique and Voodoo Economics are among our #WeekendSpecials
Is there a Left in Nigeria?
Most contemporary observers of Nigerian politics would be surprised to learn that the Left has been a significant part of the country’s postcolonial history.
No normal sport in an abnormal society
Recently, Aubrey Bloomfield, a graduate student at The New School, and I wrote a piece for The Nation about a sports boycott as a strategy against the occupation of Palestinian land by Israel. Here’s an excerpt: There appears to be support among Palestinians generally for sporting sanctions against Israel. However, to date BDS has largely been focused […]
When Haile Selassie went to Jamaica in 1966
The 21 April 1966 visit by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica casts a big spell over the appeal of Ethiopia to Rasta and how Ethiopians perceive Rasta in turn.
The vote of Kwaku, the Ghanaian plumber in the Bronx
Africans are a fast-growing segment of the black immigrant population in the U.S, but there are few attempt to court them as voters.
Nigeria’s economy is blinking and shaking
Nigeria is Africa's largest democracy and largest economy. It also dominates this issue of #WeekendSpecials.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #16
Africa is a Radio is back for April with both classic and contemporary sounds out of Africa and its diaspora. Tracklist: 1 Ricardo Lemvo – Habari Yako (Rumba Rock) 2 Papa Noel – Bon Samaritain 3 Fuego & Sango – Se Me Nota 4 Wyclef Jean – Leve’l Pi Wo feat. Power Surge 5 Willie Colon […]
The Power of Prayer
The implications of the ICC dropping the cases against Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto and former journalist Joshua Arap Sang.
Building a living archive of struggle
The struggle against the marginalization of students and the exploitation of workers at a historically black university in South Africa.
The Panama Papers are everywhere
Their release confirm what many of us already know about the tax dodging habits of the global elite. And other #WeekendSpecials.
Decolonizing the teaching of economics
South Africa’s economic realities (inequality, poverty, unemployment, demographic underrepresentation, racism) must be at the heart of the curriculum.
The deep economic and political crises in Angola
Most Angolans are preoccupied with finding and affording basic food supplies and medical supplies required for treatment in dilapidated health facilities.
Spotlight on the World Bank
Why every country should have its own credit ratings agencies and other #WeekendSpecials.
The perversion of class consciousness in Nigeria
If lower class Nigerians channelled their resentment, rather than begrudge other ordinary Nigerians struggling to make a living, chances are their lot would improve tremendously.
Na Moita–Photographing the Settlements of Rio de Janeiro
“Na Moita” is slang in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for an action that cannot be carried out in the open. It literally translates to “in the bush,” and it is normally associated with delinquent activity, but also with anything unusual. In the Baixada Fluminense – that is, the northern, most populous area of the Greater […]
The hunt for (the trial of) Dedan Kimathi
Kimati's image has long stood in, symbolically, for the ideals and lost hopes of revolutionary decolonization in Kenya.