Hillbrow invasion with @YoungstaCPT
Cape Town-based wordsmith Youngsta's been in Johannesburg for a few weeks, here on a mission to build bridges and shake
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
What’s the word? Sister/woman have you heard from Manenberg?
To honor the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising, aka Youth Day, the Rock Girls are on
Badvertising and the Soweto Uprising
The worst crime of a new ad “celebrating” the martyrs of 1976 is the message does not accord with the realities of young black South Africans.
Bashir’s last trip outside of Sudan
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir?
Weekend Music Break No.77
Weekend Music Break, your weekly round up of hot tunes and music news from around the
The Primitive Tribe
A satire on particularly British, and wider European, attitudes towards refugees fleeing war and climate disaster.
No exoticism, no promos, just the music
The Hipsters Don’t Dance “Top World Carnival Tunes” for May 2015.
Punished for being African
In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.
Peace deployed as a weapon in Angola
In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.
Swaziland’s Bushfire
The Southern African country, Swaziland, is an absolute monarchy characterized by widespread oppression. It also hosts the Bushfire Music Festival.
Rhodes Must Fall in the West too
The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.
Why would you only watch Canada at Canada’s World Cup?
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a
Time of the pathetic hero
Andrew Miller's a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer
In Praise of Defeat
The only safe thing to talk about in Eritrea, is football. Even the President watches football and is a public Arsenal fan.
The Veneers of Freedom
Why were Kenyans tweeting #52YearsofSufferinginNEP on this year’s Independence Day?
Angolan ‘justice’ in a Portuguese slave house
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques — an opponent of state corruption in Angola — is being heard in a former slave house.
Decolonizing the University
What to do with the universities South Africa inherited from the violences of Apartheid.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #11
Africa is a Radio has a Football (is a Country) focus this week. Things have been
The African Champions League Final
The Juventus team of Ghana’s Kwadwo Asamoah, Italy’s Angelo Ogbonna and the French pair Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba.
Weekend Music Break No.76
We took a break last week, but we're back experimenting with a new format. This Weekend's Music