Marikana and the end of South African exceptionalism
The Marikana mine killings in August 2012 showed that South Africa's problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.
Articles by
Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs is the Founder and Editor of Africa is a Country, on the faculty of The New School in New York and currently a Ford Foundation #AfricaNoFilter Fellow.
The search for football talent in Africa
Two of Africa's standout talents at Russia 2018--Moussa Wague and Francis Uzoho--were shaped by a football academy in Qatar. A new book tells that story.
The beautiful month
We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.
Sergio Ramos and the Egyptians
Sergio Ramos' injury to Mohamed Salah in the 2018 UEFA Champion's League final set him up for a world of insults from Egyptian football fans.
Check out our new clothes
For months, we have been threatening to launch a new website. Well, now it's here!
Drake’s Plan
The plot of Drake's music video for "God's Plan" is him giving him out money to the poor. What was he trying to say?
How to subvert the Hollywood Western
An interview with the South African director and writer of 'Five Fingers for Marseilles,' a Western set in that country, and starring an all black cast.
The Interregnum in Zimbabwe
I write this quick note as an outsider (and well aware of my physical distance from
The Youths
When I was a youth, each January 8, the African National Congress, then the dominant liberation
Weekend Special, No.1976
Happy Father’s Day. This was the week of June 16th–the commemoration of the 1976 Soweto Uprising,
Weekend Special, No. 1211
(1) Identity politics is neoliberalism, as Adolph Reed once said. And it delivers like clockwork. The hip hop
Weekend Special
We’re bringing back Weekend Special. Borrowing its title from a song by the late Brenda Fassie,