Where does Isabel dos Santos's wealth come from? Her country's resources are basically treated as her family's property.

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.

The use of Marxist-inspired arguments, often distorted, to support racist or nationalist political positions, is known as

Maldoror on filmmaking:

For his CNN food travel show, Bourdain picks black Gauteng rather than pretend-European Cape Town and the Western Cape.

Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics experiment on the poor, but their research doesn't solve poverty.

Rediscovered lectures Walter Rodney gave in 1978 in Hamburg shows a reflective intellectual, thinking critically about postcolonial African governance.

Chinua Achebe’s legacy is not fixed but rather about responding to change with energy and wit.

Ajami is the centuries-old practice in West Africa of writing other languages using the modified Arabic script. It is also more widely dispersed than we give it credit for.

Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.

Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.

The return of Patrice Lumumba’s remains must not be an occasion for Belgium to congratulate itself, but for a full accounting of the colonial violence that led to the assassination and coverup.

An ex-Credit Suisse Group AG banker became the first person to plead guilty in what U.S. prosecutors called a $2 billion fraud and money-laundering scam tied to loans to Mozambique that were used to...

Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and

Amilcar Cabral remains inspirational for Africans and non-Africans challenged by injustice and oppression.

'We Slaves of Suriname' (1934) was the first study of Dutch colonial rule from the perspectives of the people who resisted it. It is has been published in English for the first time.

The writer imagines coming out to his late mother.

Rediscovered lectures Walter Rodney gave in 1978 in Hamburg shows a reflective intellectual, thinking critically about postcolonial African governance.

In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel,...