The African Gaze: Essays on Culture and Society—Past, Present and Future

I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings Between America's Blackness and Whiteness

Aarshin KarandeMarch 1, 2019

How would one describe America now? How could one? To do so is as much an exercise in contradiction as self-incrimination. From which stories, which facts, whic... Read More...

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The Blacker the Berry Race and the Devaluation of Black Lives in America

Oyinkansola AdepitanMarch 1, 2019

Three books explain how America's construction of race continues to drive the devaluation of black lives in modern American society.

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Black Orpheus and the Organic Intellectual Remembering Abiola Irele and Raufu Mustapha

Adekeye AdebajoMarch 1, 2019

This essay honours two polyglot Nigerian intellectuals—Harvard University’s Abiola Irele and Oxford University’s Raufu Mustapha—who died abroad a month apart from each other in July and August 2017 respectively.

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Politicians and Men of God The Political Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria

Abdulrasheed IsahJanuary 25, 2019

Prominent Christian and Muslim clerics are intruding into Nigerian politics to buy votes for their preferred candidates, with dire implications for the stability of Nigeria’s democracy.

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What is Feminism? Feminism, by the Book

C. S. LozieDecember 14, 2018

As early as 1808, Francois Marie Charles Fourier, a strange and brilliant utopian socialist and philosopher, preached that the development of any civilization d... Read More...

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Anti-Fascism The Legacy of 1930s Pan-African Leaders

Jeff PearceDecember 1, 2018

With the rise in white supremacist and nationalist movements around the world, often overlooked is the important history of Africa's role in anti-Fascism.

December 18/January 19

Reading China What to Read on Africa-China Relations

Oreva OlakpeNovember 17, 2018

Sino-African relations have waxed stronger in recent years, developing from political engagement in the 1960s to trade, economic relations, and technological ex... Read More...

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Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism

Zahrah Nesbitt-AhmedOctober 13, 2018

What better time than now to start to engage—or re-engage—with feminism? Here's what to read on the movement.

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From Scramble to Boldness The Political Challenges of Africa's Youth

Ngirinshuti ThéogèneApril 20, 2018

Political participation is indispensable in a democracy. Rightly conceived, a democracy requires the eligible population to actively contribute towards the gove... Read More...

April/May 2018

The God of Colonization And Africa’s Post-Colonial Redemption

Alhassan Pereira IbrahimApril 13, 2018

In discussing the politics of life across Africa, we cannot ignore religion. As Africans, our unique history of belief has made religion such an integrated part of our lives.

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