The Eyes of Melinda Gates
Blog /It’s going to be terrible, she says. People will be dying in the streets. Have you seen the images from Ecuador? Piles of bodies. It will be like that in Africa.
14/04/2020
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14/04/2020
Notes on Corona in Africa 2
Blog /From 'let's gather and pray' in Tanzania to 'compassionate leadership' in South Africa. A continent fighting a virus in a context of extreme poverty, food shortage and homelessness. But then: why are the figures still relatively low?
07/04/2020
It has been barely two weeks since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Kenya yet the ramifications of the pandemic are already being painfully felt within my community.
07/04/2020
In Nigeria, the situation has not scaled to the height of an epidemic. Is that why some argue that the governments campaign is simply a 'cope' and 'paste' of other countries?
07/04/2020
Lockdown meaningless in Dunoon informal settlements
07/04/2020
Meditating on human rights and the coronavirus in South Africa, Pumla Dineo Gqola posits that the landscape of freedom after apartheid has cemented an old regime of movement.
07/04/2020
Notes on Corona in Africa
Blog /A weekly overview of interesting analysis and findings on the coronavirus in Africa.
30/03/2020
Our friends of Nairobi based The Elephant bring the latest factual updates about the Coronavirus in African countries.
25/03/2020
A Dutch translation of Elnathan John's Nelson Mandela Lecture was published in De Groene Amsterdammer.
25/03/2020
A white bar 'to decriminalize Mnyele.' Eleven dark spots as a tribute to the other people killed in the raid by Apartheid deadsquads. A torch that depicts the ongoing flames of resistance.
25/03/2020
“I am not interested in revolutionary speeches by corrupt and ineffective leaders who have lived, along with their families in stupendous wealth while their countries have remained beggar nations.”
10/03/2020
On Saturday, 29 February, Elnathan John met with Netherlands based writers from African descent.
10/03/2020
Open for admission | F for Fact, Sandberg Instituut
17/02/2020
South African poet James Matthews reads 'Freedom's Child'.
17/02/2020
A new documentary shows the city as an assault on all your senses. It's loud, smelly, full of contrast, tasty and hot. And there is street art everywhere.
03/02/2020
Coverage of the #LuandaLeaks revelations have steered clear of the art world dealings of Isabel dos Santos’s husband, and art luminaries have largely defended Dokolo’s reputation.
03/02/2020
Memories of an artist who knew no fear.
03/02/2020
Months-long investigation by our partner publication Premium Times (Lagos) that included visits to over a dozen cattle farms across Oyo State, showed child labour routinely boosts the production and perhaps profits of FrieslandCampina.
03/02/2020
The unholy alliance of African rulers and multinational enablers of corruption.
23/01/2020