“Bring back our internet,” was a rallying global cry from Cameroon for almost three months after the country’s government blacked out Internet services in the provinces inhabited by the country’s Anglophone minority in late January 2017. The Cameroon Internet shutdown was ostensibly aimed at stifling rising dissent, which …
In the first installment of the interview Reinhart Kößler speaks about the history of solidarity activism with the liberation struggles of Southern Africa in the former West Germany. He draws partly on his personal experience as an activist. In the second installment, Heike Becker and Reinhart Kößler discuss issues of …
I have recently been reading with great interest Daniel Miller’s Tales from Facebook. Two-thirds of the book recounts portraits of twelve Trinidadians and how their lives have been changed by the experience of using Facebook. Why, Miller asks, are people in Trinidad, where Facebook had already taken off in …
Special Issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies
Edited by Heike Becker & Dorothea Schulz
This volume starts from the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. Africa appears to be …
Writer and Researcher Leo Zeilig‘s new novel tells a gripping tale of an intellectual leftie from London, a group of southern African activists in Zimbabwe and England, and the emotional battles of living and acting in the struggles of the 21st century.
My review of this book has been …