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‘Footprints of Panafricanism’: An Interview with Filmmaker Shirikiana Aina

July 23, 2018July 26, 2018 Nubia Kai africa, African Diaspora, Black film, film, Pan-Africanism, West Africa, women in film

In today’s post, poet, playwright and novelist Nubia Kai interviews Shirikiana Aina about her new film, Footprints of Panafricanism. An independent filmmaker,

The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages

May 14, 2018May 23, 2018 Brooks Marmon africa, Anticolonialism, black press, Pan-Africanism, Zimbabwe

In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new

Luncheon in honor of the President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, 1962. Photo: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

Ghana, France, and the Re-writing of Colonial Narratives

December 15, 2017December 21, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel africa, black politics, colonialism, freedom

Emmanuel Macron’s recent tour of Africa followed the well-worn path of French presidents visiting former colonies. In the past, this