Thinking About Genocide
An extract from Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal study, ‘When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda.”
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Immune to Bullshit
The second in a series of four posts to commemorate James Baldwin’s 90th birthday.
News of an Engagement
Why you’ve got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya’s marriage to her girlfriend
Good neighbors in Johannesburg
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
The music that changed my life
The Cape Town suburb of Observatory is known for being a small bohemian enclave, providing low
Not the Country We’re Sitting in Now
The first in a series of four posts to commemorate what would have been James Baldwin’s 90th birthday.
Not just some passing foreign journalist
Lawyer and writer Elnathan John interviewed U.S. photographer Glenna Gordon. Listen.
The balkanization of Nigeria?
For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.
It’s Time to Stop Laughing
In neoliberal global capitalism, anything can be monetized, even the criminal exploits of a marginal schizophrenic.
Erykah Badu’s Royal Problem
Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.
Whining white South Africans
For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #2
Just in time for the weekend, episode 2 of Africa is a Country Radio is here! (It went
The new kid on the block
Admit you didn’t expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa’s latest elections.
Nigeria’s baby boom
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.
Why Blogging is a Threat to the Ethiopian Government
In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world.
The Politics of the Belly
The bottom line of politics in electoral democracies in 21st century capitalism: Whatever patronage politicians dispense, there’s no free lunch.
The Dangers of a Single Book Cover
The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.
Fumana isazisi sakho. Bhalisa. Vota.*
I came across this image taken by a press photographer in May 1990 after one of the
Hip hop and electoral politics
South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country’s 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?
Elections and captured politics
Twenty years after 1994, there is the deep discontent among the population about electoral politics and of politics in general. Freedom turned out to be a mirage.