Seven Things To Tell Young Black South Africans
Being Black in South Africa today must be a baffling, sometimes humiliating experience.
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Rita Nketiah
Rita Nketiah is a feminist researcher, writer and activist living in Accra, Ghana.
Tumi Molekane’s New Song
With no Volume to his name, it seemed almost impossible to imagine South Africa-based self-proclaimed poet/emcee
This is Freedom
The AIDS activist Zackie Achmat reflects on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections in this interview with Cape Town independent media outlet, GroundUp.
The Villain Is Back
Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is so unpopular that the PDS party of Abdoulaye Wade and Y’en a Marre – sworn enemies – agree on things.
“Our hearts are bleeding. We are mothers.”
Last week, Guardian lead writer Anne Perkins wondered about the discrepancy between media coverage of the
Why is there a Colombian film festival in South Africa
A group of Colombian artists who live in South Africa on “the incredible amount of similarities between Colombia and South Africa”
To discover Stuart Hall
Hall was a skilled storyteller, who placed his memory, his deep sense of alienation, and his autobiography at the heart of his theory and politics.
The art of Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor’s images always work as a proliferation of forms. It’s the sort of proliferation that
What do Nigerians really think and know about homosexuality?
Nigeria’s homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.
Meleko Mokgosi’s monumental installations
The paintings in Meleko Mokgosi’s ongoing “Pax Kaffraria” series interrogate colonialism, politics, power, and identity in Botswana and Southern Africa
Who sold Nigeria to the British for £865k in 1899?
The Royal Niger Company and the founding of what became Nigeria.
The African Hip-Hop Generation Arrives
Frantz Fanon once said: “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
The Economist sees a bright side of Oscar Pistorius’ trial
For accurate, detailed and nuanced information about violence against women in South Africa, don’t read The Economist.
The post-1994 power brokers and black liberation
Where does this leave the majority of largely poor, black and unskilled people affected by the competing interests of powerful groups?
News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Rwanda and the New York Times
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment – gets mocked on Twitter – for his government’s inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
‘Township’ is a Planet for Aliens
If you only visit South African townships to confirm your prejudices and not to experience them the way they are, stay away.
Lupita Nyong’o and the Mexicans
The actress Lupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?
Latin America is a country
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to counter the notion that everything in Latin America can be understood only through Euro-American lenses.