Corona, how are you?
COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.
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Collective action, “liberation,” and Tanzania’s working poor
How can a fragmented and precarious working class unite against exploitative labor relations and, in the process, transform them?
At the limits of inequality discourse
Race reductionism is stunting the possibility for radical change in an ever unequal South Africa.
The virus of whiteness
COVID-19 has been used to justify xenophobia and anti-Asian racism, but a white South African woman’s hoarding behavior illustrates the global anti-black and anti-poor response to crises.
Towards a working-class environmentalism for South Africa
It's going take a fully democratic anti-capitalist movement to fight climate change. The case of South Africa shows how long we have to go.
Black authors, maids and madams
How black South African authors have written about domestic workers. There's a rich archive there.
Why I’ll keep talking to South Africans about race
While Nigeria's class divide is not between rich whites and poor blacks, it still has a lot in common with postapartheid South Africa.
The school hairstyle protest in Soweto
When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.
Husbands to rent
Try being a single woman in Nigeria.
Young, Latin & Black
Chief Boima and Francesca Harding on race and cultural difference in Latin America through the lens of trap music.
The Uber driver and Muhammad Ali
When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you're not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.
Intersectionality and Economics
Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.
The perversion of class consciousness in Nigeria
If lower class Nigerians channelled their resentment, rather than begrudge other ordinary Nigerians struggling to make a living, chances are their lot would improve tremendously.
The trouble with South Africa’s middle class
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
Music Break
I love this track, “It Would Be,” by Cape Town’s Alleycat (government name: Enslin Grootboom) featuring fellow
Die Antwoord is Blackface
Die Antwoord is basically blackface. But blackface is also tricky, argues poet and writer Rustum Kozain.