Carina Ray's blog

In a previous column I documented the long history of racism towards global Africans. An editorial decision was taken to re-title the piece "We Have a History" (New African, January 2008), which gave some readers the wrong impression that I was suggesting that centuries of anti-Black racism are the only defining feature of our history.  This was not my intent.  read more »

The deep extent to which Sudanese, both in Sudan and abroad, have been and continue to be engaged in what is happening in their country, was brought into sharp focus during an international conference: "Darfur and the crisis of governance in Sudan", convened at the Institute for Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University on 22-23 February.

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Academics are often accused of being preoccupied with theory rather than practice, and semantics instead of actions, while favoring microscopic details over the big picture. Scholars working on Africa, in particular, are often accused of being intellectually self-indulgent, while the continent faces an array of very real challenges.  read more »

By now it is old news that Africa's supposed lack of civilization, history, and culture was conjured up to justify the enslavement, and later the colonization of millions of Africans.  The venerable historian of Africa, Basil Davidson, summed it up best when he argued,

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