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The making and breaking of Uganda: an interview with scholar Mahmood Mamdani

In his latest book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani explains the factors and characters – Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni – that shaped post-independence Uganda.

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My Little Communist Mayor

Plus: Air traffic control might stay home, Keith McNally embraces champagne socialism, and more...

Reason

Friday essay: Peter Jackson, the Black Australian boxing champion you’ve never heard of

As we approach the headstone of Peter Jackson’s grave, we glimpse a flash of red at its base. Getting closer, we see that it’s a pair of boxing gloves. They are brand-new Fila gloves that retail for around A$80, so someone has spent a bit of money.

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Fanon at 100: reflecting on a revolutionary legacy

This season of Spotlight on Africa concludes ahead of the summer break with a focus on Frantz Fanon in the year of his centenary. It also highlights a groundbreaking new report by UNESCO on the state of the publishing industry across the continent.

Radio France Internationale

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Our cultural touchstones series examines works that have had a lasting influence

The Conversation

I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivals, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

The Guardian - UK

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary

Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English

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Caught on camera: French cinema finally reckons with its colonial past

For years, French cinema has ignored stories that dealt with France’s colonial history, but something is now changing.

Euronews

Biopic explores the life and legacy of Frantz Fanon, a century after his birth

Soldier, psychiatrist, philosopher... who was Frantz Fanon? A new film by director Jean-Claude Barny seeks to answer that question in a year that marks a century since the birth of one of the most influential figures in 20th-century anti-colonial thought.

Radio France Internationale

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?

Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

The Guardian - US

Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?

The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

The Guardian - UK

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

The Guardian - UK

The Strangers by Ekow Eshun review – five Black pioneers

From Malcolm X to Justin Fashanu, Eshun uses historical figures to illuminate contemporary struggles – and his own alienation

The Guardian - UK

True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 – review

This sober but compelling study of the man who radically transformed treatment at an Algerian hospital explores the link between mental illness and imperialist violence

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Wretched of the Earth has been translated into South Africa’s Zulu language – why Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary book still matters

Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is still widely referenced to understand the fight against colonialism and also the postcolonial era…

The Guardian - UK

The Strangers by Ekow Eshun review – inside the minds of extraordinary Black men

The author inhabits the perspective of five figures, from Malcolm X to footballer Justin Fashanu, in this lyrical account of their lives, a thrilling affront to the archives that exclude them

The Guardian - AU

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

The Guardian - UK

Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times

Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought

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What is the Soas ethos? Four scholars pick the art, music and books that bring the global mindset to life

At a university that encourages students to explore the world through a wider lens, cultural works can play an important role in promoting fresh perspectives

Radio France Internationale

How France's diverse forces were 'whitewashed' during the liberation of Paris

As France commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris this weekend – a pivotal victory over Nazi forces – there's a renewed focus on the long-forgotten colonial soldiers who were excluded from much of the liberation, the victory parade and the subsequent battles of 1944.

The Conversation

Why liberation movements fail when they come to power: South Africa and Namibia are cases in point

Decreased support for the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa’s elections on 29 May was expected. But a decline from 57% to 40% marked a turning point in the country’s democracy. It also confirmed the general decline in popularity of former liberation movements as governments in southern Africa.

Reason

Distract the Voters

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The Guardian - UK

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychiatrist challenging western definitions of trauma

Chair of the Palestinian ministry of health’s mental health unit says the clinical definition of PTSD does not fit the reality in Gaza

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Ant kings, Lady Diana’s brother and the Trump effect in Australian politics

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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41 years of Nellie massacre: A pre-Godhra chapter for New India, with Assam’s ‘wage of indigenousness’

It’s been 41 years since the Nellie massacre of February 18, 1983, seen as one of the most horrific events of collective violence in independent India. Official estimates put casualties anywhere between 1,800 and 2,000, while less conservative figures hover around 7,000. But do these numbers matter more than the…

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