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Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Marlene Dumas, the South African-born artist whose work is sought by important collectors, keeps a blacklist that prevents those she views as turning over her works too quickly from buying additional works by her and other news.
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.
Via Jeremy Weate at Naijablog: “Photos by Brian Blazek. The Tuk-Ham festival takes place each year
A new website, "Islam in Africa," claims to be a scholarly. On closer inspection, it turns out to be run of the mill Zionist propaganda.
Annie Liebovitz's insights of South Africa under apartheid was quite ordinary: basically she sound like every other white visitor.
Approximately 300 Darfuri immigrants from Sudan live in Kensington neighboorhood of Brooklyn in New York, making new lives.
The Girifna Movement, a social movement in northern Sudan, encourages voting and advocates for peaceful change amidst the country's depressing election scenario.
My latest roundup of happenings that couldn't get the full standalone post treatment.
White South African and Americans musicians have borrowed heavily and built a careers off the Maskandi music pioneered by working class musicians like Luthuli.
The 1884 and 1885 meetings in Berlin of Euro-American powers to divide up the riches and territories of Africa are being reprised. By and for celebrities.
The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.
Julius Malema is equally a creation of the ANC and the South Africa's media. He is, however, the ANC's responsibility. How long it will take before ANC leaders kick him out?
A lot of people, not just Nigerians or its media, are pleased with white South African photographer Pieter Hugo's portrayal of Nollywood.
There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.
The result may be a foregone conclusion, but it hasn't stop young Sudanese, via the Girifna Movement, working to get the vote out using music.
The murder of the racist, far-right politician provides further fuel for the victim discourse among white South Africans.
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.
Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.
Sorious Samura joined African migrants trying to make it to Europe for menial jobs and loneliness.
Madlib's "Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa" is about African liberation in the 1970s, especially south of the Limpopo.