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On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words: A Close Reading of Sonia Sanchez's "Poem at Thirty"
Lithub, July 17, 2019
 
Binyavanga: Our Man of the People.  Africa is a country, May 24, 2019
 
Al-Shabaab's Nairobi attack is a reminder that tit-for-tat terror never succeeds
The Guardian, January 16, 2019

On the rise - and cost - of the African novel  in English
Literary Hub, 9 April 2018

What decolonizing the mind means today
Literary Hub, 23 March 2018

Introducing Issue 43: This Hustle Is Not Your Grandpa's African Lit
New Orleans Review, 6 July 2017

Open Letter to African Leaders: Do Not Follow the West Into the Abyss
This is Africa, 4 December 2016

Time to save African languages from extinction
The Standard, 22 November 2014

Beauty, Mourning and Melancholy in Africa39
LA Review of Books, 9 November 2014

Don't tell African authors what they can and can't write about
Chatham House

How to make a film about America
This is Africa, 21 May 2014

The cost of African caricature democracies
This is Africa, 19 May 2014

The indiscriminate detention of Somali Kenyans
This is Africa, 5 May 2014

Beneficiaries of colonialism in Kenya today
This is Africa, 17 April 2014

No to Nuclear: A Solar and Wind Energy Powered African Future
This is Africa, 22 March 2014

Silencing critics, Kenyan-govt-style
This is Africa, 19 March 2014


Why African leaders should boycott the Obama Summit
This is Africa, 18 March 2014


The Western Journalist in Africa
Africa is a Country, 12 March 2013

Is the ICC just selecting Africans?
This is Africa, 26 February 2013

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Photo by David Mariampolski


American policy on Africa in focus
Business Daily Africa, 28 July 2009

Africa is not a proverb
The Black Commentator, April 2009

Africans who work against great odds

Business Daily, 13 January 2009

What is America to me? Thoughts on the US presidential elections
The Black Commentator, 23 October 2008

A caricature of democracy: Zimbabwe's misguided talks
The New York Times, 25 July 2008


McCain's Meddlers
The Progressive, 28 May 2008


Let us not find revolutionaries where there are none
New Internationalist, 11 January 2008

Opinion: Home Truths
BBC World Service, 10 December 2007


New Orleans and the Third World
AnthroGlobe, 16 October 2005


columns in the GUARDIAN



How Al-Shabaab was born
The Islamic Courts Union had brought a fragile sense of order to Somalia. Destroying this played into the hands of the militants.
4 October 2013

Kenya vote: how the west was wrong
Western journalists have been left behind by an Africa moving forward: in fits and starts maybe but forward nevertheless.
12 March 2013

How I found an adoptive family in a Boston Bar
A casual job, several beers in an Irish pub and an epiphany on a frosty night made me realise that America really is home.
24 November 2011


African in America or African American?

I can live in the US for 20 years yet still be treated differently – by both black people and white.
14 January 2011

What about the pursuit  of happiness?

Nicholas Kristof seems to think poor people should not seek pleasure at the expense of practical needs. It's not that simple.
 6 June 2010
 
Myths of the middle class
Resistance to US healthcare reform springs from American belief in middle class prosperity and individual self-reliance. 
13 September 2009

Capitalism's self-destruction
Barack Obama must figure out how American capitalism and global capitalism can live side by side. 
10 March 2009

Not the president from Kogelo
Barack Obama may be sympathetic to Africa's problems, but solving them requires US policy changes he can't possibly make.  
5 December 2008

Africa's surreal future
If Obama and the G8 truly want to help Africa's poor, they must stop supporting the continent's corrupt leaders.
14 July 2009



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