Tag: african politics
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Today’s plans to decarbonize global energy systems, which center on a massive expansion in the use of solar, wind, and battery technologies, need to better account for the high environmental… more ›
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Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs) are pivotal players in ongoing proxy wars in the Greater Middle East and its periphery. Their covert operations—real and imagined—are also critical in shaping… more ›
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In this story from Nataal issue 3, Ekow Eshun, Selly Raby Kane and Sunny Dolat discuss Afrofuturism in fashion “Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the… more ›
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A Dutch artist worked with former plantation employees to create a “white cube” that they hope will one day display works returned from European museums. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/arts/design/white-cube-renzo-martens.html more ›
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The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia in for the murder of Thomas Sankara, one of Africa’s most revered post-independence leaders who… more ›
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There has been little acknowledgment of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now. As a wet winter gives way to spring, Lisbon’s Campo das Cebolas square is… more ›