Tag: Africa is a Country

  • Race, Identity and the Making of Hashim Amla Africa Is A Country 2013-07-20 Niren Tolsi Hashim Amla has arrived. His back-lift to gully now appears the sort of lazy flourish that bored twelve-year-olds develop because they are staggeringly superior to their opposition, rather than the defect that presumed he wouldn’t cut it at international level…

  • Valentine’s Day special! On love, race and history in Ghana Africa is a Country 2016-02-14 Dan Magaziner, Associate Professor of History Yale University Despite colonial administrators’ attempts to sabotage their marriage plans, Brendan (a district commissioner) and Felicia Knight wed in 1945. Fifteen years later, Felicia staged a successful one-woman-protest in front of Flagstaff House…

  • Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not. Africa Is a Country 2014-06-11 Chandra Frank Mieke Weisemann This week cultural centre de Balie in Amsterdam will be hosting an event titled ‘LovingDay.nl: (In)visibly Mixed’ on “mixed race” families and relationships (BTW, the Netherlands uncritically accepts this terminology, along with the assumption…

  • Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey Africa is a Country 2014-06-17 Achal Prabhala Bangalore, India By the time you read this, it’s possible that every single person on the planet will know who Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is… …You could come to any number of conclusions from Neymar’s remarkable transformation. For instance, you could conclude…

  • An Afropean Journey Africa is a Country 2014-03-21 Johny Pitts A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a…

  • Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black? Africa is a Country 2013-12-20 Daniel Barbosa We’re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian miscegenation gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races…

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…