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Liz Timbs

Liz Timbs is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in African History at North Carolina State University. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.

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The king is dead

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Independence Day

The labor and political organizing of Somali immigrants in the US Midwest should inspire more Americans to join the broader movement for worker rights and racial equality.

I, Surya

The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.

Unequal Scenes

Anthropologist Johnny Miller’s aerial photographs chronicles geographic stratifications in South Africa and beyond.