Julie MacArthur

Sep 24, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Kim Reynolds |Julie MacArthur |William Shoki |Michael Oshindoro

“I cannot go back to where I came from. It no longer exists. It should not exist.” “Return”; “reconnection” ; “coming back” (after having left or being taken away); “home.”These words have taken on an actionable connotation in the diaspora; they can be done, achieved, and completed. “Going home,” “returning,” and “reconnecting” processes have been practiced for as long as the conditions that necessitated them have existed.

Sep 20, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Julie MacArthur

This is not an essay; it is not a think piece. It is an inadequate expression of grief and gratitude, an act of remembrance, a memorial to three Chimurenga Maitũ: mothers in liberation. In 2023, the world lost three legendary Kenyan mothers of liberation (from left to right, in order of their passing): Mũkami Kĩmathi (who passed on May 5, at the age of 101), Professor Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo (June 30, age 80), and Mau Mau Field Marshal Mũthoni wa Kĩrĩma (September 5, age 92).

Sep 20, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Maya Schkolne |Julie MacArthur |Dan Mafora

On September 13, Panyaza Lesufi, the Premier of the Gauteng Province in South Africa, announced the terms of reference for a commission of inquiry to probe the mortal fire in the Usindiso building in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, that killed 77 people, and left others injured and homeless on August 31. Once a central “pass office” under Apartheid, it was used to regulate the movement of black people from the designated self-governing Bantustans (“Homelands”) into white South Africa.