Between Rwanda and Mandela
When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela
When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela
I no longer recall when exactly I met Sam. Maybe it was in the late 1970s at CODESRIA, or in the early 1980s at the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies. The late 1990s, though, was the time we truly got to work together, closely and intensely. The two of us were at the helm of […]
One of the main challenge for the continent remain: there is a lack of consensus in terms of African strategies towards India, the US, or China.
The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality - especially the casual racism - drives him away.
كأحد الناشطين في مجال حقوق الاجئين وكمهاجر عايشت كل الظروف التي يمر بها الاجئين القادمين الي أوربا، تدور دوما في ذهني أسئلة عاصفة لا تهدا احاول هنا ان أشارككم إياها هل فعلا نجد في ألمانيا في ارض الواقع تلك الشعارات التي يرددها الاعلام هذه الأيام وخاصة المستشارة الألمانية. إنجيلا ميركل حين صرحت ( لقد حققنا […]
As immigrants, refugees and citizens, we must fight together to stop the rampant racism created and sustained by the government and their policies of forced isolation.
How accusations that a visiting African-American professor was denied entry to a high end hotel, present an opportunity to address racism in Brazil.
African political elites will continue to use the spoils of "development" and aid to serve their personal interests.
Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.
The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.
For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.
The big questions that animated our friend this week: Facebook, thanks for the ‘Paris Safety Check.’ Can we have one for Baghdad, Beirut and Borno too? Why is a public execution with a sword worse than an indiscriminate drone attack? Why weren’t the recent suicide attacks in Baghdad and Beirut and Borno also an attack […]
There's little doubt that Chinese and Arab interests are procuring land in Africa, but a careful review of the evidence suggests also point to local buyers.
Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims—both symbolically and practically.
To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?
The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.
After a tough election in Tanzania, won by the ruling party, a constitutional crisis looms in Zanzibar.
A black coated Nylophor fence transverses the Union Building lawns the day #FeesMustFall marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The fence creating a ceremonial space for protest below and, at the top, the Union Buildings edifice with a tall sculpture of former president Nelson Mandela with his arms wide open in cruel irony. The […]
This week’s 20 questions from our friend: Can Idris Elba’s acting save the Netflix movie ‘Beasts of No Nation’? Why do African national teams do so well in FIFA age group competitions (Nigeria and Mali play each other in the Under 17 World Cup Final today in Chile) but fail so spectacularly at senior level? (A […]
The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.