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Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification. Image credit Oluka Levi © 2024. For a moment, Pride & Prejudice finally had some sound. For...
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The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye. Sudan, 2016. Image credit Anouk Delafortrie for the EU ECHO via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed. “Don’t worry, Séra, the...
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Diomaye’s first weeks
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy. Image credit Anna Wood © 2004. I landed in Dakar for a short trip a couple of days before Korité (Eid Al Fitr),...
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An electoral autocracy
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change. Image credit Manuel Lopez for the World Economic Forum via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed. This article is from an upcoming...
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Les femmes dans la nation sénégalaise
Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l'histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes. Photo by Amaury Michaux via Pexels CC. Read in English here.L’élection de...
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Children are the first to die
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine. Children breaking a Guinness World Record for kite flying in Northern Gaza, 2011. Image credit...
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Full circle
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world. Nelson Freitas on Portuguese Television. Image via RTP on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed....
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Born of struggle
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa. Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Image credit South African Tourism via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Deed. On April 27, 2024, South Africa celebrated 30...
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Círculo completo
O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo. Foto promocional de "Dpos d'Quarentena" por Nelson Freitas © 2023. Read in...
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Taking a stand
The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras. All images courtesy Maher Mezahi © 2024. In North Africa, there’s a time-honored saying: “When it comes to football,...
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Seeking fantasies across the sea
By centering the African migrant perspective, a new film challenges Western images that cast hundreds of thousands of individuals into the generic role of desperation. Still from Il Capitano (2023). A...
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The limits of self-professed hypocrisy
In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions. Hustle and Bustle...
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Just us voting?
The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election. South African elections June 1999. Image credit Terje Skjerdal via Flickr CC BY...
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Direct action gets the goods
In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa. Apartheid demonstration, Duke University, 1986. Image via Duke University Archives on...
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To be a woman in Sudan
Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils. Alsit Mountain. Image credit Ahmed Fouad via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Deed. Recent coverage of the Sudanese war after a prolonged period of...
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Retórica não é suficiente
Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo. Foto da Copa da Solidaridade entre...
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Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action. President Lula with President Isaac Herzog of Israel...
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Lagos should get over itself
Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center. Photo by Dami Akinbode on UnsplashLagos, the center of excellence. The centerpiece of Nigeria and Africa. The overworked muse for artists,...
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The sound of identity
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series. The London African Gospel Choir perform during the Jubilee...
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Corruption kills?
The Nigerian Scam podcast returns to discuss the rise and fall of Nigeria’s anti-corruption movement. Protesters at the #endSARS protest in Lagos, Nigeria, 2020. Credit Ayokanmi Oyeyemi for Kaizen...
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