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‘The Rebel’s Clinic,’ by Adam Shatz, is an engrossing biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Becca Rothfeld reviews Adam Shatz’s new biography of Frantz Fanon in The
Continue readingThe Doctor Who Saw Colonialism as a Sickness
Ghana can’t afford to play the game of borrow-and-bailout…Africa needs a development leader By Noah Smith: So, unfortunately, it’s time for another one of these. By which I mean both
In this talk, philosopher Achille Mbembe (Africa is a Country) considers the possibilities of a new planetary configuration of the human and the humanities, in light of what he calls
Continue readingFuture Knowledges and the Dilemmas of Decolonization
On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review by Alden Young in the Phenomenal World: On May 1, 2014, Nigeria’s then-president, Goodluck Jonathan,
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. Abiy Ahmed won the
Continue readingDid a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?
Africa is a region of 1.4 billion people and over 2,000 languages. News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance
Continue readingAfrica is Not a Country. Shift Your Understanding.