Self-determination and identity are deeply emotive issues, and the choices people make in this regard, however controversial, require respect It was already over two years since the boxer formerly known as Cassius Clay...
Culture
Diaspora diaries and football politics
As with football, Africa risks losing its best and brightest to more advanced and monied nations Football and politics have always enjoyed a fascinating relationship. During this year’s World Cup the political subtext...
Africa’s ‘First Peoples’ are gaining ground
The past 20 years have seen a complete transformation of the political and legal landscape for Africa’s indigenous people The term “indigenous people”, and the identification of particular groups in these terms, evokes...
In search of African culture
Perceptions that ethnic African cultures are primitive as measured against a western way of life are not supported by modern anthropology Recently in Kenya, in a remote village deep in the western part of this East...
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