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Desiring whiteness. A book explores this racist history in colonial Senegal

Features December 27, 2025

By Caroline Séquin Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, particularly in Senegal....

Desiring whiteness. A book explores this racist history in colonial Senegal

Features December 27, 2025

I am Jesus, son of God. How may I help you today?

Features December 25, 2025

Early shoppers: how African consumers set global trade trends in the 1800s

Features December 25, 2025

The horrors of El Fasher are slowly being revealed

Features December 24, 2025

A new way forward is needed for Somalia

Opinion December 20, 2025

Kidnapping in the Sahel has become an industry

Analysis December 17, 2025

Pops Mohamed mixed old and new to reinvent South African music

Arts December 13, 2025

Trump’s racist remarks are dehumanising and spread fear among Somali’s

Opinion December 12, 2025

Many burning issues at the “headless” ICC, one of them it’s leadership

Analysis December 10, 2025

Janjaweed leader sentenced to 20 years

News December 10, 2025

The Red Sea has become a proxy battlefield where order emerges from competition rather than consensus

Analysis December 6, 2025

Far more Sudanese refugees in Egypt are now being detained and deported

Features December 5, 2025

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