
The beautiful month
We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.
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Sean Jacobs, Founder and Editor of Africa is a Country, is on the faculty of The New School and a Shuttleworth Fellow.
We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.
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.
Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn’t always a good thing.
Engaging seriously with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life could help us understand how South Africa got where it is and where it’s going.
For months, we have been threatening to launch a new website. Well, now it’s here!
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?
Jacob Zuma’s nearly decade long regime competed with Thabo Mbeki as the worst presidency of South Africa’s short post-apartheid order.
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.
All things equal, we should have a new website within the next couple of weeks.
Ten post-independence, pre-coup struggle songs that critiqued ZANU-PF under Mugabe and imagined a leadership change and different political culture.
A film about the separate, and often connected, journeys of two Somali footballers, also refugees, to make it as footballers.
Put on “Gang Signs & Prayer,” the debut studio album of Stormzy (Government Name: Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo, Jr.), as this is going to be a long Weekend Special.
South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.
Interview with historian Dan Magaziner about his new book, The Art of Life in South Africa, about one of the few art schools training black art teachers under Apartheid.
“Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity” (Lumumba, 1960)