Whining white South Africans
For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #2
Just in time for the weekend, episode 2 of Africa is a Country Radio is here! (It went
The new kid on the block
Admit you didn’t expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa’s latest elections.
Nigeria’s baby boom
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.
Why Blogging is a Threat to the Ethiopian Government
In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world.
The Politics of the Belly
The bottom line of politics in electoral democracies in 21st century capitalism: Whatever patronage politicians dispense, there’s no free lunch.
The Dangers of a Single Book Cover
The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.
Fumana isazisi sakho. Bhalisa. Vota.*
I came across this image taken by a press photographer in May 1990 after one of the
Hip hop and electoral politics
South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country’s 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?
Elections and captured politics
Twenty years after 1994, there is the deep discontent among the population about electoral politics and of politics in general. Freedom turned out to be a mirage.
Jeremy Clarkson’s long history of escaping accountability
Cancel Jeremy Clarkson, cancel Top Gear and cancel British jingoism.
What took the world so long to bring back our girls?
Western media tends to render female children invisible not just by a lack of coverage but also in the language we talk about them.
#Photojournal: Back To The City Festival
Back To The City is a hip-hop and street fashion festival held in Johannesburg's Newtown Precinct
In Search of Freedom
Belgian-Congolese filmmaker, Nganji Laeh, along with musician and composer Badi and filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba, explore present day DRC via film.
A Rwandan Storify
The sensational tale of Rwanda’s gospel-singer-terrorist, Kizito Mihigo.
Seven Things To Tell Young Black South Africans
Being Black in South Africa today must be a baffling, sometimes humiliating experience.
Tumi Molekane’s New Song
With no Volume to his name, it seemed almost impossible to imagine South Africa-based self-proclaimed poet/emcee
This is Freedom
The AIDS activist Zackie Achmat reflects on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections in this interview with Cape Town independent media outlet, GroundUp.
The Villain Is Back
Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is so unpopular that the PDS party of Abdoulaye Wade and Y’en a Marre – sworn enemies – agree on things.
“Our hearts are bleeding. We are mothers.”
Last week, Guardian lead writer Anne Perkins wondered about the discrepancy between media coverage of the