
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city’s busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city’s busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.


For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.

The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.

Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.

Viva Riva! director, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, on African self-representation, and opening a production company in “chaos.”


The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.



A decade after the ICC opened its investigation in northern Uganda, it lays its hands on a suspect in that conflict: a former child soldier.


Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.


Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.

Football officials are supposed to be advocates for the beautiful game and for footballers – irrespective of gender. But the treatment of female players with regard to gender testing is deplorable.

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