
The argument over J.M. Coetzee
J M Coetzee, South Africa’s most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country’s literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

J M Coetzee, South Africa’s most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country’s literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.

Barbecuing may be the perfect activity to remind South Africa that inequality is the first heritage we need to overcome.
The reactions to the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi makes clear the differentiation between human lives that are worthy of grief, and those that are not.

Why is the great director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) making a state-sponsored biopic?

Angola spends millions of dollars to host the World Championships in roller hockey (yes). Anyone who think it is a waste of money gets beaten up.

if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the ‘apartheid city’, it would be Cape Town.

The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.

Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren’t that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.

The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.


It’s understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.

South Africa’s mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.

Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, ‘The Warm Up,’ ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.

There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there’s an election he exploits ethnic divisions.

The negative effects of tourism, globalization, and commercialization in Zanzibar.

Meron Estefanos Meron speaks to us about her ongoing work with Eritrean refugees and migrants, many who live in Israel.

The story of how the most famous portrait of a young Chinua Achebe was taken at his house in Enugu, Nigeria in 1959 by American photographer, Eliot Elisofon.

The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.