
The Safe Location
Denzel Washington’s new thriller, “Safe House,” plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can’t tell. That’s deliberate.
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.

Denzel Washington’s new thriller, “Safe House,” plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can’t tell. That’s deliberate.


This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.

Plays, operas, children’s events, participatory performances by audiences, and even some “open society” speeches lit up the Tunisian capital in defiance of religious extremists.

Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her “austerity” agenda.


What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?

Mali’s rebel armies, their shifting alliances and their fans make for quite a spectacle.

How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?

Watching a 34 year old Benni McCarthy back in South Africa with Orlando Pirates, leave many observers with a lingering feeling that he could have achieved so much more.

The coverage of Lesotho’s 2012 elections don’t move beyond superficialities and actually delve into the complexities of local politics.


A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso’s films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.

For our series, “My favorite photographs,” we asked Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her favorites.


How the death of a very talented Kenyan marathon runner points to structural problems in the country’s national running industry.

Didier Drogba is the master of the unruly and the absurd: when he is in form, none of what the other team does matters.