Is another knowledge production of Africa possible? My essay on this topic has been published at the New York-based blog "Africa is a country."
Read my essay "What is the point of African Studies?". It is an edited post that first appeared on the Review of African Political Economy.
Steven Robins’ long-term project of tracing his family’s past from South Africa to Berlin and back has recently taken a productive new turn with the opening of an extraordinary exhibition at the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition, conceived by Stellenbosch University Anthropologist Robins and the …
Namibia has seen an unprecedented outpouring of grief following the death of liberation struggle hero Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo on 9 June 2017. Toivo was part of a generation that bore Southern Africa’s long struggles against apartheid and colonialism. The article gives a brief biography of this inspiring man …
In the summer and autumn of 2015, 1.1 million people arrived in Germany with the aim of seeking asylum. The majority of these were refugees from the war in Syria, many others came from Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Western Balkan.
The German asylum system forces newly arrived refugees to …
Burkina Faso is a fascinating example of how a long history of socio-political mobilization, the resurgence of interest in a murdered former revolutionary leader, and the digital connections of the social media age have recently coalesced in a successful revolution.
Long-time strongman Blaise …