The School That Was a Ray of Light in Apartheid
The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa. … Continue readingThe School That Was a Ray of Light in Apartheid
Sudan and the Silence of the Activists
Nesrine Malik in The Ideas Letter: Some 20 years ago, the Darfur region of Sudan was in the throes of a brutal war against rebel African groups protesting their economic
From Nobel Peace Prize to Civil War: How Ethiopia’s Leader Beguiled the World
Tom Gardner in The Guardian: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about Abiy Ahmed.” The message flashed up from someone I had been told to call Napoleon. It was the
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Why No One Will Save Sudan
Cameron Hudson in Persuasion: History is repeating itself in Sudan. Tensions between rival security factions, which spilled out last April into open conflict, have rapidly created the world’s largest displacement
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s end. S’bu Zikode and Richard Pithouse in the Boston Review: Richard Pithouse: Mandela was released from prison
Nigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’
By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has said that corrupt political leaders have no tribe, religion but are bound together by their
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Wednesday Poem: Images of Africa at Century’s End
By Ama Ata Aidoo @ Poetry Foundation: Who was it saidthe reason whyyou never seeBlack Folks properlye-v-e-r on film or TVis ’cause White Folks“find them threatening”? Whopei! Abae-o-o-o! We always
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Climate Change Requires Private Sector Financial Firepower
And these efforts cannot be simply country-based. They must be geared to achieve global goals for net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Olabisi of Michigan State University explains how the
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Tinubu: Illegal Mining is Major Cause Of Terrorism
By Greenbarge Reporters: President Bola Tinubu has identified illegal mining as one of the major causes of terrorism in Nigeria and across Africa and called for the establishment of a
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The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma
Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks, his controversial and rejected doctoral thesis on the effects of
Byzantine Regained
Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division of the Roman Empire into two parts. The Western Roman Empire would go on to
The Unique Life Philosophy of Abdi, Born in Somalia, Living in the Netherlands
at Aeon: When viewers are introduced to Abdiwahab Ali, the main character in the short documentary Neighbour Abdi, his charisma radiates from the screen as he showcases his creative metalwork
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