"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
“…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]
Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine
Photo credit: UCT Rhodes Must Fall In this moment it appears increasingly clear that the growing levels of inequality and the tensions in national politics in the South African context[...]
Unlike groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (also known as Daesh), Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in sub-Saharan Africa are less frequently,[...]
The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]
Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
The Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and the international response to it, has reprised contentious questions about postcolonial paternalism in Africa. This satirical piece reflects upon these[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives
The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine · Releases
Towering over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the recently completed African Renaissance Monument casts a long shadow that stretches out across the surrounding suburb of Ouakom. Ahead of these three[...]
Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
* All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]
Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives
Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]
The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine
The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Featured · Magazine
Note: This creative submission is a sister piece to the critical article, Antinomies of Neighborliness. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. ***** “To my compatriots, I have[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine
Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
“When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013). The question[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]
Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
C. Wright Mills’ sociological imagination draws attention to the fact that a number of social connections inform the apparently personal life of the individual. Today, even for those who are[...]
Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]
Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]
Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
“It is more important to buy a sjambok than a plough” was the advice the prosperous Charlie Muller gave to the young farmer Dick Turner. The sjambok, a long whip[...]
Arts · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]
Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [U]ne image, dans le fond, c’est comme une bouteille à la mer. J’écris un message que je mets dans une bouteille, que je lance à la mer. Elle[...]
Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [A]n image, deep down, is like a bottle thrown into the sea. I write a message that I put into a bottle, that I throw to the sea.[...]
