
Reading List: Brooks Marmon
The writings of Edson Sithole, Zimbabwe’s forgotten nationalist thinker, reveal both the promise and perils of pan-African politics in the independence era.

The writings of Edson Sithole, Zimbabwe’s forgotten nationalist thinker, reveal both the promise and perils of pan-African politics in the independence era.

The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.

A new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.

Once a beacon of hope for militant trade unionism, Numsa’s descent into corruption and political entanglement reflects the broader struggles facing South Africa’s labor movement.

South Africa’s pivot to electricity markets will be socially regressive, whether green or not.

En 1973, Josie Fanon a interviewé Oliver Tambo, alors président de l’ANC, à propos d’Israël et de l’apartheid en Afrique du Sud. Il est désormais disponible pour la première fois depuis sa publication originale.

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.

The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.

Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.

Revisionist histories of South Africa’s transition to democracy are overdue, like on the deadly march on Bisho in the Ciskei homeland on 7 September 1992.

Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.

Different factions of South Africa's ruling elite are implicated in looting and profiting from the state. South Africans should take an attitude of a plague on both their houses.

Don’t get to excited by the local election results in South Africa. The party system is fragmenting, but old apartheid divides persist.

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?

President Jacob Zuma oversaw a rise in political violence across all sectors of South African society.

The Nelson Mandela encountered by former antiapartheid activist Tony Karon in American media is so unrecognizable.

How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?

South African political party, the DA, pivots its election campaign around claiming Nelson Mandela. Who came up with this?