God, too, takes the train to work

• Asanda Kaka

The author, also a photographer, on documenting South Africa’s “train churches.”

Rethinking mental illness

• Jonathan Duncan

The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.

All the immigrants’ crimes in Italy

• Donata Columbro

The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society

10 African films to watch out for, N°15

• Tom Devriendt

DJ Al Walser For President

• Boima Tucker

Howls in a hurricane

• T.O. Molefe

For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.

Us and Them: Rape and Racism in India

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

When Nelson Mandela goes

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Mozambique, the new frontier of global capitalism

• Corinna Jentzsch

What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?

Renouncing the Rhino

• Benjamin Fogel

My beef with rhinos is more of a beef with white South Africa as a whole, who are all for saving rhinos but largely silent about inequality, poverty and institutional racism.

Six lessons from Ghana’s 2012 elections

• Dennis Laumann

Here’s on lesson from Ghana’s 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana

What was Strauss-Kahn wearing?

• Dan Moshenberg

Euro-American media just can’t do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.

First Thoughts on Mali’s Second Coup

• Gregory Mann

Mali’s interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.

Documentary: Fuelling Poverty in Nigeria

• Justin Scott

Jared Thorne’s Black Folks

• Lindokuhle Nkosi

A black photographer who moved to South Africa from the US, explores the transcontinental dialogue between black middle class people the world over.

The Fairtrade Façade

• Justin Scott

What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?

#GhanaDecides Playlist

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Political violence as routine

• Jill E. Kelly

Most media reports of “political murders” in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa don’t situate them in their larger historical context.

This is not Pantsula

• Bukola Afolayan

Sbujwa is a South African dance described as a dance that requires every muscle in your body to work in order to complete the moves.

10 African films to watch out for, N°14

• Tom Devriendt