Jun 09, 2016

M. Ali

The boxing champion won many battles in and outside the ring during the 1960s and 1970s. Ali’s life illustrates the role of African Americans in sports and its relationship to the broader struggle against national oppression.

Parresia Publishers to release new title, ‘We Are All Biafrans’

Chido Onumah

May 05, 2016

Chido Onumah

The new book by Chido Onumah is a collection of essays published by the author in various publications, including Pambazuka News, in the last three years focusing on the crisis of nationhood in Nigeria.

Nigeria

2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize: South African author is regional winner for Africa

Emma D’Costa

May 05, 2016

Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Writers has announced the regional winners for this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The five stories have risen to the top of the 4,000 entries received this year. The South African author, Faraaz Mahomed, is the regional winner for Africa for his story ‘The Pigeon’.

What are they really celebrating at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris?

Kwame Opoku

May 05, 2016

R.G. \Collage

Could a museum with all the precious stolen artefacts of others and the support of the French government fail? Such celebrations are the self-congratulatory affirmations of the seemingly impregnable position certain Western cultural institutions have assumed as a result of relentless colonial exploitation and oppression of African and Asian peoples. Or how could one explain that institutions holding admittedly looted artefacts are not bothered about the illegality of their acquisitions?

Benin