Jailbreak in Conakry
How Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, nearly broke out of prison.
How Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, nearly broke out of prison.
How a new underground club in Nairobi offers Kenyans respite from the harshness of everyday life.
South African con-artists Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana are not good people. They’re also an outcome of a system that predisposes individuals to avarice, selfishness and deceit.
A bleak new television drama, ‘Donkerbos,’ explores secrets in small town South Africa, but fails to offer alternatives to the tropes of good vs evil.
What happens to the contemporary explosion of moral panics, urban legends, and other paranoid narratives when they manifest in a place like South Africa?
In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.
Drug use among young people in Nairobi's slums is on the rise. Youth also face arbitrary arrests by the police, resulting in jail time which turns them into hardcore criminals in a vicious cycle.
What might the fascination in displaying and seeing the body of “the criminal” tell us about South Africa today?
Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.
A Mexican research group has listed the world's most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. South Africa's cities finish tops.
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
The murder of a far right politician and the new victim discourse among white South Africans.
Who are the real victims of crime and violence in South Africa?
What was Johannesburg newspaper, The Star, hoping to achieve with this dehumanizing image?