
Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.

The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’

Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.

The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn’t help.

The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.


Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?




It is still okay to create the most objectionable stereotypes about certain Africans and for it to be considered fine. This time: India.



Bok van Blerk’s new music video mines familiar racist tropes of starving, diseased children in a war-torn African country saved by a blonde heroine and her white male companion.

The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.

When Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.