Pharaonism, a mode of national identification linking people living Egyptians today with ancient pharaohs, emerged partly as an alternative to colonial British efforts to racialize Egyptians...
Nanjala Nyabola’s new book reflects on Africans’ experiences of dislocation, exile, belonging and not belonging.
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
While many African Christians can only imagine a white Jesus, others have actively promoted a vision of a brown or black Jesus, both in art and...
It took time to digest Beyonce's Black Is King. Conclusion: it fails to deliver us. Instead, it's just another capitalist construction of the world.
The policing of black hair often begins at a very young age, in the most subtle and intimate spaces, long before you get to school.
As in other parts of the world colonised by European powers, the politics of skin colour in South Africa have been importantly shaped by the history...
As we tell the story of Me Too, says TRACEY NICHOLLS, let us not forget the centrality of black women’s struggles for control over their own...
In this essay, SANYA OSHA debunks myths about Nigeria that are being perpetuated by African academics who fail to appreciate the impact slavery and colonialism had...
If Nigerians want to be the true Giants of Africa and, indeed, the world, they must walk it with the empathy and humility befitting of a...
For more than a generation the term ‘Africanist’ has meant an implicit stranglehold by a mostly white and male cadre of academics and Western institutions on...
