The king is dead
The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
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Liz Timbs
Liz Timbs is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in African History at North Carolina State University. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.
South African history through new ears
Is the future of podcasting a show featuring isiZulu retellings of 19th-century African life combined with an original soundscape composed with a revolutionary ethos?
Independence Day
The labor and political organizing of Somali immigrants in the US Midwest should inspire more Americans to join the broader movement for worker rights and racial equality.
Dear David Chang
A plea for foodie celebrities like Chang, the host of a popular Netflix show, to take African cuisine seriously.
Mandela and the Others
What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial’s proceedings?
Multimodal memories
Exile and memory from East Africa to the United Kingdom and back again.
I, Surya
The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.
The emperor has no clothes
South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.
Set the world on fire
How black women shaped black nationalist and internationalist movements in the twentieth century United States.
The rise and fall of Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South African public life is rife with revisionism, often opportunistic. Take the case of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Unequal Scenes
Anthropologist Johnny Miller’s aerial photographs chronicles geographic stratifications in South Africa and beyond.
The Archive of Malian Photography
Preserving the photographs of five Malian photographers – including Mamadou Cissé and Malick Sidibé – online.
Flood the soundscape African
If the internet is the democratizing force that it is advertised to be, why shouldn’t you be able to contribute?
The podcast for African Hip Hop
The Hip Hop African is a podcast series about African hip hop culture made by Howard University and George Washington University students.
Capturing Nigerian histories before they disappear
The Nsibidi Institute Memory Project attempts to use digital forums to preserve popular, everyday memories of Nigeria.
History, memory, and the nation
A website archive makes the case that Liberia needs a history that will be called ‘history after the settlers.’