National Geographic’s mea culpa isn’t enough
A deeply colonial institution, with a shameful history, struggles to reinvent itself.
National Geographic
The Prisoner and his Pin-up Girl
Apartheid's prisons tolerated 'National Geographic; For Nelson Mandela, who knew better, it was porn.
When Richard Pryor dressed up as “a tribal bushman”
This was for the cover art of one of his comedy albums: "The cover looked totally real, like a cover of National Geographic."
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.