Kleine Stöberkiste

The Body Keeps the Score

VON Lebohang Liepollo Pheko

In this blog post, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko introduces a recently published, open access special issue in The BMJ on reparations and global health. In it, she argues that if the 19.

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From colonial storage to open access

VON Furaha Ruguru

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.

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South Africa’s future lies in unity, not isolation

VON David Mahlobo

Narratives portraying South Africa as xenophobic are troubling. The claims ignore the reality of our daily interactions, our constitutional values and the extensive regional partnerships that underpin our development agenda

Measured Bodies and Moving Men

VON Sabeeka Al-Kuwari

In apartheid South Africa, Drum magazine showed Black readers what it meant to be modern. But not everyone got to be modern in the same way.
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Odyssey to Africa’s last colony

VON Eoghan Gilmartin

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.

Cashew capitalism – part two

VON ROAPE

The dominant cashew economy had established patterns that outlasted independence in 1974. By then, Amílcar Cabral was already dead, assassinated by Portuguese agents in Conakry the previous year.

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Ethiopia’s debt problem

VON Mebratu Kelecha

Successive debt regimes in Ethiopia have shown that external finance can protect sovereignty, finance coercion, or build development, sometimes all at once.