Calls for a Western intervention in northern Mali, now being called “Africa’s Afghanistan,” rely on logical fallacies and ignore recent history.
Lagos Photo Festival founder Azu Nwagbogu on combating Afro-pessimism, the dialogue between Africa and the West, and depicting the “other Africa” of industry and intellect.
Work for Guernica
April 22, 2013
We're currently looking for interns for our editorial and publishing departments.
A World Without Guernica?
April 20, 2013
Guernica has big plans for the rest of 2013 and beyond, and your support will be crucial as we invest in the next writers and artists who will challenge, inspire, and provoke you.
Jillian Steinhauer: Hannah Arendt’s Passionate Thinking
June 19, 2013
Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic yields an insight that’s fresher than “the banality of evil,” and just as true.
Kiran Herbert: Portland and Portlandia, Two Worlds of Whiteness
June 18, 2013
Oregon’s liberal mecca was made white by explicitly bigoted laws, and its hometown satire white-washes race relations.
Ikhide Ikheloa: Notes from my Middle Passage
June 18, 2013
Nothing could prepare me for America.
