By JJ Amaworo Wilson Part memoir, part thesis, and part lyrical examination of what it means to be black in…
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Review of Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa by Lee Wengraf
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Here’s a quote from the Berlin Conference of 1885, in which the European powers set out…
Human Flow: A Film by Ai WeiWei
By JJ Amaworo Wilson For a film with ‘flow’ in its title, the only surprise in this superlative documentary is…
Review of The Football Factory by John King
By JJ Amaworo Wilson John King’s novel was first published in the UK twenty years ago. It has recently been…
The Other Damnificados: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
By JJ Amaworo Wilson One hundred years from now, historians will want to describe African American life in the 21st…
Poet Mohammed al Ajami Released from Qatar Prison
By JJ Amaworo Wilson After more than four years in prison, Qatari poet Mohammed al Ajami has been pardoned and…
A Review of Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third Word Revolution by Leo Zeilig
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Jean-Paul Sartre described Che Guevara as “the most complete man of our time.” Like Martin Luther…
Many Thousand Gone: New Orleans Ten Years On
By JJ Amaworo Wilson When the levees broke in New Orleans in 2005, so did the veneer of racial harmony…
Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, is a timely tome. As Greenblatt well knows,…
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: “The Scars of History Are on Every Writer”
By JJ Amaworo Wilson The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a…