Nativism and narrow nationalism in South African politics
The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.
The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.
Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.
What does it say about a country that could elect such an unsavory character?
Next time 'Die Stem' part of the South African anthem plays, the appropriate reaction is to sit down or take a knee.
Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World's Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.
In Terence Ranger, politics and history, nationalism and scholarship, intersected in ways rarely seen. Zimbabwe and Africa, will forever be in his debt.
The writer Taiye Selasi doesn’t seem to realize there is a difference between identity as a subjective, biographical problem and identity as a legal and political reality.
Politics in and about Ethiopia has become so heavily “ethnicized” that we have a difficult time distinguishing between ideology and identity.
Tuareg musicians Tinariwen, on tour in Europe these days, spent some time in Belgium this weekend.
A quick survey of Western media suggests Tuareg nationalist claims don’t carry the same weight as
What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.
No one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feel-good cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry.