The spear of the nation
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd's killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd's killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
Zambia's mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.
Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.
No primer aniversario do estreno do filme 'Black Panther,' re-publicamos o ensaio de Russell Rickford traducido em Português.
Constant attention to segregation in formerly white South African schools limits our understanding of how race works in the school system.
There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa's history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.
The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana—first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States—says a lot.
The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers' union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.
2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad's first feature film, 'Bye Bye Africa.'
In Somalia young people are the majority, yet have to act and perform “age"—appear older—to succeed or get anywhere in life.
The latest trick is to transfer tax-payer funded aid aimed at Africa and the Middle East into the pockets of corporations and individuals.
Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro's toxic, racist, rightwing regime?
Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
The power of having a god who resembles us.
Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.
Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.