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Birthing the American
Yemisi Aribisala explores, with mixed emotions, the enduring opportunism of a Nigerian elite that ensures that generations of children claim US birthright. Despite the assumed status that goes with being born “abroad”, the American dream, she argues, is in fact only a Nigerian backup plan.
Wrestling With A Warlord
Louis Chude-Sokei narrates a story of Nigeria, of splintered identity, of exile, and of the Biafran War and its godfather – his godfather – General Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
A Corpse and its Jurisdiction – a letter from Lagos
By Chimurenga on October 8, 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Akin Adesokan tropes on the detective genre after he stumbles on an […]
When We Hear the Name of President
Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide evokes a language of high stakes, hi-jinx, and […]
George Osodi
George Osodi is a photographer from “the oil-rich Niger Delta region”. His images […]
Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition
Interactions Interactions is an edited excerpt from filmmaker, writer and artist Aryan […]
Guilt Trips
Kai Friese interrogates the colonial fantasy that lives on in the sententious […]
The First Lady Syndrome
By Chronic on August 21, 2013 in Archive, Cash & Commerce, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Mama Chantal Biya Yves Mintoogue* traces the nepotism and political patronage that […]
Manufacturing the post-election peace: A reporter’s 2013 election diary
Parselelo Kantai watches as NGOs, the media and the state rally together […]
A Civil Society Of African States
Paula Akugizibwe assumes observer status at the African Union and finds the […]
Death by Memory [of Freedom]; Truth & Reconciliation
By Chronic on August 5, 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
A tryptych in honour of Steve Biko. Firstly, Graeme Arendse, as his alter-ego Ramgee, presents In […]
A Fieldguide for Female Interrogators
by Coco Fusco (illustrations: Dan Turner) This graphic story previously […]
America Will Always Blame…
Rigo 23, born Ricardo Gouveia, is a Portuguese muralist, painter, and political […]
Who’s Free, Who’s Not, Who Was, Who Wasn’t, and Who’s Dead: And, Are You Sure You Know Which Way Is Up?
A Letter from Istanbul by Ed Pavlic Trayvon remains underground, to my […]
Suspect Sammy
A Letter from Toronto by Andrea Meeson It’s another Monday morning after […]
Memento Mori
A Letter from Harlem by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. When I came home from abroad, […]
Speech to the Science Graduation Ceremony of the University of Witwatersrand, 2008
By Chronic on August 4, 2013 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance
Good Evening. I will use my own life history tonight to argue […]
The Way Back Home Article
The Way Back Home On the death of a close relative, Niq […]
Graveyards, monuments and African Studies
by Nicole Sarmiento. “I have argued that the problem with this course is […]
Achebe The Native Intellectual
There Was A Country, Chinua Achebe’s autobiographical account of the Nigerian Civil […]
Three Men, A Fence & A Dead Body
Sean O’Toole travels to the northern reaches of Limpopo where South Africa […]
Is Biko’s legacy being besmirched?
By Chimurenga on April 8, 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
In October 2002, 25 years since Stephen Bantu Biko‘s death, poet James Matthews penned […]
50 Years Ago: Zeke in Nigeria
Es’kia Mphahlele and the Anti-Apartheid Association of Nigeria Moritz Isaac (Manu) Herbstein […]
Diary Of A Bad Year
Diary Of A Bad Year: President Mbeki’s Letters to the Nation by […]
Walking through walls
Eyal Weizman reports on military tactics known as ‘walking through walls’ where […]
When history is suspended
(In memory of Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave) by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa I […]
EU fortifies its mission on North African frontline
Supported by Libya and Tunisia, the European Union is ringing the Mediterranean […]
La Frontera
Klas Lundström finds himself in an isolated corner of the Amazon jungle […]
The last words of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week […]
Uncertainty in Cuba after the Death of Hugo Chávez
As the world bids adiós to Hugo Chávez, Ivan García (of Desde La Habana) reports on […]
The Death of Jacob Dlamini
Political analyst, Jacob Dlamini, argues that the death of another so named […]
The Test
By Chimurenga on March 9, 2013 in Archive, Books & Oration, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Read the following text carefully: “Know thyself, thus says the quotation […]
Chicken Core: The Rise of Kings
SporeDust is a young animation studio, still a rare species in the […]
The Adventures of Dr Evil in Dakar
President Abdoulaye Wade recently claimed intellectual property rights of the “African […]
Not Yet Uhuru
Ugandan journalist and activist, Kalundi Serumaga, reflects on his time as a political […]
The Warm Up
The xenophobic violence sweeping many communities in the past weeks is not […]
Once There Were Humans
In the hills above Kingston, Jamaica Annie Paul unpacks some baggage in […]
Les Saignantes
A young woman, beautiful, 20-something, is fucking […]
The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary
Asef Bayat A traveller to Middle Eastern cities, Tehran, Cairo or Rabat […]
A New Consciousness
Itumeleng oa Mahabane A man walks down a street. His shoulders […]
France’s war for uranium
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Evidence
Brent Hayes Edwards The cell is four meters long and two meters […]
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée
By Chimurenga on December 8, 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Norbert N. Ouendji interviews Achille Mbembe before Afropolitanism (circa 2010) « Sortir de […]
Calabash Afrobeat Poems
By Chimurenga on October 15, 2010 in Arts & Pedagogy, Media & Propaganda, Music, PASS, Systems of Governance, Video
by Dike Okoro Ikwunga Wonodi is not a new face among Afrobeat […]