June 5, 2023
In 2009, South African scholar and activist, Prof. Sean Jacobs of the New School in New York started the online publication Africa is a Country. Sinc…
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It is more helpful, more liberating, for Africans to see themselves from the vantage point of the pugilist on the other side—as a country
Africans need to talk to each other
In Uganda and Kenya, the sight of a Somali is equated to seeing a terrorist. Yet, Somalis are by far the biggest victims of terrorism!
East Africans know so little about the Horn of Africa and Africans in the Horn know so little about East Africa
Simply documenting—however exhaustively—the numbers and conditions under which the deaths of migrant workers occur is deliberately, cleverly, telling a half story
“While acknowledging the great merits of African writers in foreign languages, we cannot fail to note that they belong in the literature of the language they use to write.”
Whatever their cultural or political identity—Left or Right, Conservative or Progressive, Far-Right or Far-Left—political actors in the western world see Africa as a hunting ground
There is always something fundamentally disturbing about the way in which colonialists and white supremacists sought to destroy Black bodies.
Liberation movements that have achieved success or significant success are usually those which have taken seriously the tasks of defining and laying out their short- and long-term objectives and how to pursue and achieve them.
The African Union (AU) set a very ambitious theme for 2021: “The Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.” If one
It is more helpful, more liberating, for Africans to see themselves from the vantage point of the pugilist on the other side—as a country
Africans need to talk to each other
In Uganda and Kenya, the sight of a Somali is equated to seeing a terrorist. Yet, Somalis are by far the biggest victims of terrorism!
East Africans know so little about the Horn of Africa and Africans in the Horn know so little about East Africa
Simply documenting—however exhaustively—the numbers and conditions under which the deaths of migrant workers occur is deliberately, cleverly, telling a half story
“While acknowledging the great merits of African writers in foreign languages, we cannot fail to note that they belong in the literature of the language they use to write.”
Whatever their cultural or political identity—Left or Right, Conservative or Progressive, Far-Right or Far-Left—political actors in the western world see Africa as a hunting ground
There is always something fundamentally disturbing about the way in which colonialists and white supremacists sought to destroy Black bodies.
Liberation movements that have achieved success or significant success are usually those which have taken seriously the tasks of defining and laying out their short- and long-term objectives and how to pursue and achieve them.
The African Union (AU) set a very ambitious theme for 2021: “The Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.” If one
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more