Don’t call me Toubab
It is mid-September. I am walking alone in the streets of Old Jeswang, a small neighborhood in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, where I ha…
Many Missing Bodies
Gideon Njuguna’s mother called us in early October 2015 because she needed help following up the case of her son, Gideon, who had disappeare…
Do informal workers’ lives matter?
In February 2008 in Dakar, Senegal, a pregnant fish trader, who remains unnamed, was fatally hit by a police car. The car was attempting to …
Crisis and the meaning of money
Robert Mugabe Junior has the word “melanin” in his Instagram biography. I discovered this when I went to his profile, a little indulgence I …
The myth of Donald Trump’s white working-class support
Whiteness is the biggest single factor that emerges from the US presidential election. The majority of white voters across gender and most i…
Shutting down Dadaab endangers refugees
Kenya plans to shutdown the world’s largest refugee camp later this month. If the closure goes ahead on November 30, 2016 it will endanger t…
Ramadan in Khartoum
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909-1985) was a Sudanese religious reformer and leader, who had also played a significant role in Sudan’s struggle fo…
Trump’s America
The world and many Americans are reeling in shock and anxiety at the election of Donald Trump as the next president of this mighty, but deep…
Feet & Cars
Growing up in 1980s Congo-Brazzaville there wasn’t a lot of technology going around. Computer games, cellphones and tablets were alien conce…
