What needs to fall to what needs to rise
The video playlist from our one-day symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the Marikana massacre—funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—is now on YouTube.
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Israel’s actual relationship with apartheid South Africa
Learn more about historical relationship between apartheid South Africa and apartheid Israel in this short video.
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Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
Weekend Special No.2034
Twitter a while back: 'Robert Mugabe is old enough to be Muhammadu Buhari's father.' Robert Mugabe,
Cape Town’s art fair
Art players and enthusiasts from around the world and down the street will coalesce at the
Weekend Music Break No.105 – Songs from banned countries: Somalia edition
For this weekend's music break, we'll have a second edition of "Songs from banned countries." This
Music Break No.102 — Winter In America edition
"... The stakes are very high: literally, survival of organized human society in any decent form,"
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Africa’s Premier League
The story of Africa’s long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.
Pan African Space Station, NYC
A periodic, pop-up live radio studio, a performance and exhibition space, a research platform and living archive.
Boutros-Ghali, more than an Ali G punchline
How to mark the passing of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former UN Secretary General and a major figure
Books of 2015
A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.
Nicki Minaj’s Angola
Africa is a Country asked a group of writers and thinkers what they think the 15+2 trial means for contemporary Angola, which celebrated its independence on November 11.