The historic and humanistic project of fashioning African futures entails retrieving the past and reconstructing the present, and investing our imaginations and energies in envisioning a...
The death of Elizabeth II has ignited a substantial conversation about the British imperial past, the role of the British monarchy providing the cultural cover for...
Two University of Stanford students Shiro and Phuthi explore the internal struggles at work balancing, competing priorities of justice for fellow Africans with pursuit of personal...
The aspiration for common ground and common values is merely a delusion of those of military might. The less powerful retain a great deal of agency...
Institutions, including universities, have internal and external lives that are mutually constitutive. Institutional cultures reflect and reproduce prevailing and intertwined national and global contexts, challenges, and...
Africa's engagement with the world before European colonialism holds unexpected episodes of un-colonial power relations.
Two brilliant African graduate students Shiro Wachira and Phuthi Tsatsi are from the University of Stanford, with plenty of experience in development sector in Kenya and...
Long after political independence, African studies continue to be conducted within the colonial framework that views African systems of thought and practice as primitive and savage.
The spread of democracy and the application of economic policies championed by Western and foreign powers has not led to economic and political development that benefits...
After 9/11, the focus of US policy towards immigrants and visitors turned sharply against Africans even though to date no African has been implicated in a...
In this conversation, we talk about tax justice and the 15% minimum corporate tax proposal by the G7. What is it about, why is it important...
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. Mtu ni mtu kwa sababu ya watu. A person is a person through other people. And so we rest when we must, and...