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Countries must compete for migrant workers to boost their economies

Politicians and the media expend inordinate amounts of energy debating migration, often using nativist, populist and xenophobic rhetoric. This is...

Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature

“One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words,” thinks the colonial district commissioner...

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Countries must compete for migrant workers to boost their economies

Politicians and the media expend inordinate amounts of energy debating migration, often using nativist, populist and xenophobic rhetoric. This is...

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Countries must compete for migrant workers to boost their economies

Politicians and the media expend inordinate amounts of energy debating migration, often using nativist, populist and xenophobic rhetoric. This is...

Trevor Noah is right. People can be both French and African

The afterglow of France winning the 2018 World Cup tournament on July 15 should be gone by now. But the...

Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature

“One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words,” thinks the colonial district commissioner...
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Why migrants bring gifts from abroad. A sense of obligation and a fear of social backlash

An estimated 281 million migrants span the globe. The remittances they send home get a lot of attention from policymakers...

the surprising influence of Afrobeats music on politics

In the run-up to Nigeria’s February 2023 elections, the country’s younger generation has mobilised to demand change and redefine the...

how Africa can avoid being caught in a new Cold War

China’s foreign ministry published a 4,000-word analysis entitled US Hegemony and its Perils on 20 February. It’s an indictment of...

what’s failed and what’s succeeded

Africa Day this year marks 60 years since the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The anniversary begs...

Ethiopia’s musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution

The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent conflict that had a particularly heavy impact on...

new UN report reveals the extent of systemic racism faced by people of African descent in Australia

A special UN working group this week tabled its first-ever report on the experiences of people of African descent in...

20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of African writers have followed in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s footsteps

Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene with...

How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur

For decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and...

how a pioneering Ghanaian publisher put African women’s writing on the map

Published in 1992, Daughters of Africa is a groundbreaking volume of writing by women of African descent. It was followed...

Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site –...