African Arguments
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Making Home, not taking it: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Zionism from South Africa today
South African Jews for a Free Palestine stand firmly behind a history of anti-imperial, anti-Zionist Jewish visions of liberation. It is common to hear ... -
Africa in the global village: Notes on some epochal trends
Hidden in plain sight, Africans are in the thick of the kind of history-making that will define the 21st century. In 2024, Africa presents ... -
The small oasis town leading the fight against water privatisation
For over 100 days, residents of Figuig in Morocco have been protesting plans to allow a private company to manage the delivery of drinking ... -
The legend of Johannesburg: From Afrophobia to acts of kindness
Zukiswa Wanner pays homage to a city where the contradictions of violence and Ubuntu seem more marked than perhaps anywhere else. Africa’s urban landscape ... -
Ep 8: The Black Mediterranean
Camilla Hawthorne traces the history of Europe’s perceived border with Africa, from antiquity up to today’s mobilisation of second-gen migrants. Curated Conversations · Season ... -
Senegal’s democracy is in peril
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal’s president ... -
The South must unite to end debt and shape a new economic order
The inequities of the global financial system have changed little for decades. What’s new, with the climate crisis, is the urgency of fixing them. ... -
Mali: Defiant and alone, will the junta defeat the jihadis?
Revolting against the French, expelling a UN force and walking out of ECOWAS, the Assimi Goita junta is taking out its frustrations with the ... -
The silence of the Obidients
With the Tinubu government’s IMF-prescribed shock therapy convulsing the economy almost a year after the botched presidential election they believe cost Peter Obi victory, ... -
Ep 7: EU-Africa “Cooperation” and its Discontents
Amanda Bisong examines the imbalances of Europe’s migration diplomacy and charts an alternative route ahead. Curated Conversations · Season 1, Episode 7: EU-Africa Cooperation ...
