Biko’s children
In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.
In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.
The author of 'Now You Know How Mapetla Died,' a book on the murder of a leading Black Consciousness leader, writes about her research.
Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?
Africa Is a Country is proud to announce the official launch of the AIAC Talk livestream show.
Achille Mbembe argues that “decolonization” is in truth a psychic state more than a political project in the strict sense of the term.
The author, remembering Mandela, writes how South Africa galvanized progressive energies in the US in the 1980s.
What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?
What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
Nkosinati Biko on a close and present relationship with his father that is unusual for children in general and for the children of activists in particular.
By Dan Magaziner* South Africa’s 1970s are rightly remembered as a time of rising militancy. From
Breeze Yoko's mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.