The Elephant in the China Shop Race in Sino-African Relations
The long history of Sino-African relations would not be complete without a reference to Zheng He. Zheng He was a fourteenth-century admiral who completed severa... Read More...
Culture & Society
I Know Why the Mockingbird Sings Between America's Blackness and Whiteness
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...
The Blacker the Berry Race and the Devaluation of Black Lives in America
Three books explain how America's construction of race continues to drive the devaluation of black lives in modern American society.
Black Orpheus and the Organic Intellectual Remembering Abiola Irele and Raufu Mustapha
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.
Politicians and Men of God The Political Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria
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.
What is Feminism? Feminism, by the Book
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...
Anti-Fascism The Legacy of 1930s Pan-African Leaders
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.
Reading China What to Read on Africa-China Relations
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...
Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism
What better time than now to start to engage—or re-engage—with feminism? Here's what to read on the movement.
From Scramble to Boldness The Political Challenges of Africa's Youth
Political participation is indispensable in a democracy. Rightly conceived, a democracy requires the eligible population to actively contribute towards the gove... Read More...