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.
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.
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.