
The Spear of the People
The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has a bit of a reputation as a “sleepy hollow.” But it was a crucial node in the struggle against apartheid.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has a bit of a reputation as a “sleepy hollow.” But it was a crucial node in the struggle against apartheid.

Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann sees film as a powerful tool to inspire compassion by briefly letting us live another’s life and expand our understanding.

An interview with political scientist Domingos Manuel de Rosário, of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, about the October 2014 elections.


Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?
Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.

Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.

Done ‘debating’ whether “Larney Jou Poes” is free speech? Let’s talk about the conditions of farmworkers.

The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.

Hipsters Don’t Dance ‘Top 5 World Carnival Tunes’ for October 2014.

Drummers Requiem on 125th Street in New York City.

Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We’ll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.

Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.

And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a “peacemaker.”


While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.

Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?

Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.