The Dookoom Debate
What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Mali and Manhattan
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?
Race and Elections in Brazil
Many Brazilian voters are so disillusioned with politics that in this traditionally left-leaning, post-right military dictatorship society, the right has made surprising gains in this election.
South African Hip Hop Series: Video Profile On Rapper Sam Turpin
"The thing about Joburg," observes rapper and producer Sam Turpin "it's kind of on the scale
Pan-African fashion that rejects “social entrepreneurship”
Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.
Dookoom Rises Up
A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video “Larney Jou Poes” (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.
South African Hip Hop Series: Thoughts On The Late Rapper Mizchif
I was home alone one Friday night around 2001 watching, as was tradition, one of the
Dakar booms with life
The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal’s capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, “100% Dakar.”
Zambia turns 50
Zambia – the country its young people fondly call “Zed” – turns 50 in 2014. It was part of the first wave of African countries to gain independence in the 1960s.
Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
South Africans lack table manners and posture.
The country’s first School of Etiquette situated in one of Johannesburg’s rich northern suburbs is more evidence of how much its public culture has slid to the right.
How to bet and win against the (international) system
Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He’s always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.
The Future of The Gettleman
After re-reading this article last night, I traveled to the end of the world and was
What Liberia Teaches About the Failures of Aid
While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.
Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?
Bad reporting on Ebola is worse than ignoring It
It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.
What is it like to be a refugee in Germany?
The general trend has been to make immigration more difficult, rather than improving the conditions for asylum seekers and refugees.
How do we talk about the memory of Apartheid
The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.
The Rusty and Golden Radiators are back!
The Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund (SAIH), the organization responsible for the brilliant Africa for Norway campaign, is