This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series, here to read the second and here to read the third AiW Guest Tiago C. Fernandes SIDE A: FELA KUTI Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born in… Read More ›
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Culture, politics and intellectual practice through Gilroy’s “The Black Atlantic”
This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series and here to read the second. The book “The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness” written by Paul Gilroy is extremely insightful to… Read More ›
Now We Are One
Professor Steph Newell, University of Sussex, President of the African Studies Association of the UK, joined AiW contributors and founders to celebrate AiW’s first birthday(!!): ‘Right from the start, a year ago, Africa in Words has captured the imaginations of… Read More ›
Public forum, online debate: South Africa’s new ‘Secrecy Bill’ and protection of state information
As I post this, online debates rage about the decision made in Friday’s Mail & Guardian (one of South Africa’s leading national papers) to run a censored article – with content blacked out – that criticised Zuma’s spokesperson, Mac Maharaj,… Read More ›
