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Caster Semenya 21st century 'Hottentot Venus'?		Nov 1, 2009	1369
Making Pan-Africanism relevant today: there could be no more appropriate place to reflect on the practice of Pan-Africanism than in this new African 10th anniversary Black history month special issue. Readers are invited to weigh in on where they see Pan-Africanism today and what their vision is for the Pan-African tomorrow.		Oct 1, 2009	1343
The empire's ghost returns.		Aug 1, 2009	2454
Remembering Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: as we mourn the loss of the Pan-African giant, Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (aka Taju), let us continue to seek guidance in his wisdom. As Nathan Byamukama, a Taju admirer, so aptly puts it, let us also rejoice in knowing that "Tajudeen will turn the angels into Pan-Africanists", writes Carina Ray.	In memoriam	Jul 1, 2009	2705
Why do you call yourself black and African? Over the last year, New African readers have increasingly enquired about my racial background. I hope that in satisfying their curiosity, their attentions will be directed once again at the content of my columns rather than the colour of my skin.	Column	May 1, 2009	1678
Cuba and the myth of the 'race-less' nation (part 2): in the second of her two-part series on Cuba, Carina Ray documents the significant contributions made by Afro-Cubans to the island's independence and their thwarted struggle for inclusion in the early Cuban nation.	Report	Apr 1, 2009	1594
Cuba and the myth of the 'race-less' nation (part 1).		Mar 1, 2009	1549
Are "Arabs" killing "Black Africans" in Darfur? The de facto reliance on "Arab versus Black African" as the basis for understanding the fault lines of the Darfur conflict is reflective of the profoundly reductive nature of much of the reportage on Darfur and what amounts to an almost wilful denial of the historical relationships and overlaps between Darfur's so-called Arabs and Africans.		Jan 1, 2009	1677
Obama is not (yet) Africa's prodigal son: if we want to understand how an Obama presidency might reshape US foreign policy towards Africa, we need to confront the thorny question of identity politics and take a closer look at his recent history where Africa is concerned.		Nov 1, 2008	1749
Every genocide has its deniers; In 2004, the German Government finally acknowledged that the slaughter, a century earlier, of the Herero and Nama people in colonial Namibia was genocide. Not everyone, however, agrees.		Oct 1, 2008	1675
Becoming 'European' (2); West Indian officers in British West Africa were treated as "Europeans" by the colonial governments. this led to a conflict in 1904 over their employment in the Gold Coast (now Ghana).		Aug 1, 2008	1587
Becoming 'European': West Indian officers in British West Africa were categorised as "Europeans" by the colonial governments and given better salaries and working conditions than the "Natives". This is part one of a two part series exploring the fraught history of West Indian "European" colonial officers in British West Africa.		Jul 1, 2008	1495
Racial politics of writing African history: "As a historian of African descent, I regard the decolonisation of knowledge as a crucial step in ensuring that Africans worldwide retake control of their own destinies and histories.".		May 1, 2008	1387
Darfur and the crisis of governance in Sudan: at the end of February, leading Sudanese scholars, activists and civil society members convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a major conference on Darfur. The event provided a unique platform for Sudanese voices to be heard and reckoned with.		Apr 1, 2008	1286
How the word 'tribe' stereotypes Africa: as a term deeply embedded in a colonial lexicon of racism, slapping the word "tribal" on African conflicts is not only analytically lazy and inaccurate, it is also irresponsible and dangerous. The use of the term obscures the complex nature of African identities and conflicts.		Mar 1, 2008	1528
The dangers of 'brand aid': good intentions don't always produce good results. This month, Carina Ray examines how highly commercialised aid initiatives, like Product(RED), are branding Africa as a helpless continent, and asks whether in the final analysis these fundraising campaigns hurt more than they help.		Feb 1, 2008	1365
We have a history! The vigour, boldness, and frequency of racist assaults on global African humanity are increasing at an alarming rate. This month, Carina Ray takes a look back at the long history of African humanity under siege and examines how little the language of racism has changed over the last 300 years.		Jan 1, 2008	1735
True visionary Thomas Sankara (1949-1987).	Biography	Dec 1, 2007	1480
African victims of the Anglo-Boer War: there are thousands of victims whose lives and deaths must be remembered as part and parcel of one of modern history's most painful and protracted birthing processes--the Anglo-Boer War. For without them, the Republic of South Africa might not have been born at all.	Column	Nov 1, 2007	1769
The sex trade in colonial West Africa: in the final of her three-part series, Carina Ray looks at the last stage of the protracted struggle to bring an end to the traffic in women and children for the purposes of prostitution in colonial British West Africa.		Oct 1, 2007	1608
Africa: unsung heroes of independence.		Mar 1, 2007	1550
The sex trade in colonial West Africa (Part 2): in the second of her three-part series, Carina Ray continues to uncover the racial politics that underpinned the Gold Coast colony's unusually lenient laws on prostitution.		Jan 1, 2007	1628
An archive-junkie with great tales: the 1919 race riots in Britain provoked the emergence of a publicly articulated critique of the double standard which allowed white men to have their way with African women in the colonies, while black men were beaten in Britain for marrying white women. Not fair; so I became an archive junkie.		Dec 1, 2006	817
The sex trade in colonial West Africa: in a three part series, Carina Ray examines the sex trade in colonial British West Africa and uncovers the racist ideologies that allowed the traffic in women and children to flourish despite its adverse effects in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, as Ghana was then known.		Nov 1, 2006	1591
Idi Amin and his British friends: recently declassified Foreign & Commonwealth Office files in London offer a telling insight into the sheepish, yet cunning way Britain responded to Idi Amin's 1971 coup.		Jun 1, 2006	1774
Are you a native? Carina Ray trudges through the archives and finds the colonial definition of who was a "native" very interesting. Each British colonial government in Africa strategically defined "native" according to its own specific set of local circumstances and interests.		Apr 1, 2006	1561
The marriage that sent the West into a panic.		Feb 1, 2006	1454
How Britain impeded the first 'Back to Africa movement': while today's migratory patterns reveal an outward flow of people from Africa seeking better lives for themselves in Europe, there was a time when people living in Europe desperately sought asylum in Africa. Carina Ray continues her Tales from the Archives.		Dec 1, 2005	1889
'The Rhineland's lost boy': while today's migratory patterns reveal an outward flow of people from Africa seeking better lives for themselves in Europe, there was a time when people living in Europe desperately sought asylum in Africa. Carina Ray continues her Tales from the Archives.		Nov 1, 2005	1435
Britain: the 'sex problem'.		Oct 1, 2005	2436
The origins of mixed race populations: while rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora's mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray.		Jan 1, 2005	1458