Saturday 18 July 2026
Colonialism
Cinema
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The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.…
Interviews
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From plural universality to the philosophy of shared living, Fathi Triki reflects on modernity, dignity, and coexistence across Arab and African intellectual traditions.…
From plural universality to the philosophy of shared living, Fathi Triki reflects on modernity, dignity, and coexistence across Arab and African intellectual traditions.…
Culture
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As colonial structures weakened and new nations took shape, writers began telling their own life stories. These narratives bridged older communal traditions and the rise of a modern literary self.…
As colonial structures weakened and new nations took shape, writers began telling their own life stories. These narratives bridged older communal traditions and the rise of a modern literary self.…
Culture
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African writers are moving beyond the defensive posture of postcolonial discourse. Their work negotiates identity, recognition, and literary authority within an increasingly global cultural economy.…
African writers are moving beyond the defensive posture of postcolonial discourse. Their work negotiates identity, recognition, and literary authority within an increasingly global cultural economy.…
Culture
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David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.…
David Elstein’s attack on David Olusoga’s docuseries on the legacy of the British empire reveals less about historical error than about the enduring impulse to rehabilitate British colonial rule.…
Culture
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From colonial discipline to chosen expression, Sali Ali delves into how dress became a site where African bodies reclaim meaning, history, and agency.…
From colonial discipline to chosen expression, Sali Ali delves into how dress became a site where African bodies reclaim meaning, history, and agency.…
Interviews
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A Chadian novelist reflects on language, history, and the afterlives of colonialism, tracing how storytelling can reclaim memory across borders.…
A Chadian novelist reflects on language, history, and the afterlives of colonialism, tracing how storytelling can reclaim memory across borders.…
Interviews
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Framed as a monument to coexistence, the Mogadishu Cathedral drew its form from Sicily’s medieval past. Through her research, Claire Dillon reveals how this architecture of “tolerance” masked the deep fractures of colonial ambition.…
Framed as a monument to coexistence, the Mogadishu Cathedral drew its form from Sicily’s medieval past. Through her research, Claire Dillon reveals how this architecture of “tolerance” masked the deep fractures of colonial ambition.…
Interviews
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Zimbabwean author and film maker, Tsitsi Dangarembga, talks about writing, the narrowness of African political space and how films work to construct all of us in certain ways. …
Zimbabwean author and film maker, Tsitsi Dangarembga, talks about writing, the narrowness of African political space and how films work to construct all of us in certain ways. …
Interviews
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The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.…
The director of the Oscar-nominated film 'Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat' reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.…
