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Ethiopia puts paid to Western perceptions that African people lack history and are incapable of poetry, philosophy and science. Photo: File
AFRICAN HISTORY

Ali Mazrui’s view on how Ethiopia solves the West’s ‘puzzle’ about Africa

Ethiopia puts paid to Western perceptions that African people lack history and are incapable of poetry, philosophy and science

  • Seifudein Adem
8 min read
AIME CESAIRE

Cannibalism haunts the ruins of capitalism

We can thread the genealogy through our long history, which is imbricated in ongoing racial capitalism that literally eats our bodies to feed wealth and deepen inequality

  • Hugo ka Canham
7 min read
Scathing critique: Academic and author Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Neither Settler nor Native, is a haunting meditation on the deadly political rituals and fires of the ‘politicisation’ of cultural and ethnic identity. (Photo: Chloe Aftel)
ACADEMIA

Review: Mahmood Mamdani on the ‘non-national’ state

Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?

  • Sandile Ngidi
7 min read