
The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.

The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country’s other indigenous languages for use in higher education.


As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country’s present.

Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.

The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.

A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what “liberated, spoiled, but also insecure” Western women can learn from their African counterparts.

Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president’s son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?

A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.

When a member of the UK’s House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she’d organized Lumumba’s abduction and murder.

What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?

South Africa’s news media’s much vaunted editorial independence.

Not sure what is empowering about a UK grime artist explicitly glorifying African conflict and capitalizing on the fear and violence that it entails.

Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.