Ethiopia’s debt problem
Successive debt regimes in Ethiopia have shown that external finance can protect sovereignty, finance coercion, or build development, sometimes all at once.
From colonial storage to open access
For a century, African musical heritage was recorded, boxed, and shipped to museums abroad. In Nairobi, a new generation of archives is bringing cultural memory home — and putting it online.
Odyssey to Africa’s last colony
Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to filmThe Odysseyin occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonial rule.