Alex White
Historian, editor, and freelance writer
John Okello and the Revolution that Made East Africa
Accra Noir: ‘A Wreath for Udomo’ (Peter Abrahams, 1956)
How Alex Haley wrote and reframed the life of Malcolm X | Aeon Essays
Derek Peterson: ‘What I try to do is to explain why demagogues like Amin possess the power to convince’
African Activism in Anticolonial Cairo
Waiting for the Waters to Rise: ‘Egypt+100’ (ed. Ahmed Naji, 2024)
How Indian Broadcasts Shaped East Africa’s Struggle For Independence
The Mysterious Killing of Kamal Al Din Salah in Mogadishu
Malcolm X and the Difficulties of Diplomacy
The puzzle as propaganda
How Radio Cairo made waves in Somalia
Maya Angelou’s newly uncovered writing from Egypt and Ghana reveals a more radical side to her career
Sigmar Hillelson – the German Jewish pioneer behind the BBC’s Arabic Broadcasts
How the UK’s Propaganda Won Cold War Allies in Kenya
A Ransomware Attack Has Taken the British Library Out of Circulation
Not that complex
With Morocco normalization, Israel revives a dangerous Africa policy
A tale of two reviews
Radio Cairo and Egypt’s Battle for East Africa
Tanzania and China’s Upgraded Relations Aren’t as Solid as They Seem
Archives of the air: tracing the lives of East African radio broadcasters in Moscow and Beijing