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Arts & Culture
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Angolan nation-building in the 1970s recuperated Njinga’s historical trajectory as a great leader who united peoples of different ethnic origins
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Arts & Culture
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Arts & Culture
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AIAC
June 26, 2023
Arts & Culture
Writing authentic stories about Africa – Inventing our own fictions
A summary of Binyavanga Wainaina’s book How To Write About Africa.
AIAC
June 22, 2023
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Mandela’s Black Marxism
Interview with Paul S. Landau, author of Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries. Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing
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During apartheid, literary magazine ‘Staffrider’ flourished from its ability to represent multiple social visions. However, it struggled to achieve the
AIAC
June 11, 2023
Arts & Culture
Freeing slaves for peanuts – a slice of Senegalese history
What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.
AIAC
June 9, 2023
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Reading List: Ayomide Bayowa
Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection. Cover of Gills. My debut poetry collection,
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June 6, 2023
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Printing the political: Robocop and Bin Laden posters in Uganda
In Kampala, Nasser road has become an iconic site of entrepreneurial printing, most famously, its ubiquitous posters of notorious political
AIAC
May 26, 2023
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May 26, 2023