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John Langalibalele Dube was the first President-General of the ANC. Nelson Mandela its 11th president. Mandela was a great admirer of Dube, an exceptional figure in his own right.
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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.

John Langalibalele Dube was the first President-General of the ANC. Nelson Mandela its 11th president. Mandela was a great admirer of Dube, an exceptional figure in his own right.

Parody performers, the Naija Boyz, take on Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.” It is unclear what they’re trying to say.

The film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the questions and limits of what one will do for love, told by an unorthodox filmmaker.

The Mandela who needs celebrating is the Mandela who, if he was not Lenin, never pretended to be something else.

The Brother Moves On is not anti-ANC. Their new music rather speaks to the ideals of the liberation movement and asks if this is what we fought for.

The one individual the African continent was unanimously proud and infinitely grateful of, was Nelson Mandela.

The author, remembering Mandela, writes how South Africa galvanized progressive energies in the US in the 1980s.

In April 1962, Mandela traveled on an Ethiopian passport in the name of David Motsomayi. He visited Morocco, Algeria, and Mali.

The Nelson Mandela encountered by former antiapartheid activist Tony Karon in American media is so unrecognizable.

The Mandela Capture Memorial in Howick, Kwazulu Natal speaks eloquently to the essential truth: that in South Africa, some families mattered more than other.

The writer, originally from Cape Town, remembers Nelson Mandela’s impact on his life.

The Dutch can’t hide how racist the “tradition” of the blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is. Here we parody their rationalizations.

Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region’s diasporas.

An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An African refugee in Britain seeks assistance. He is thrown behind bars, often shackled. He fasts in protest. He is shackled and shipped out on the next charter flight.

Racist representations of Africans are common in South Korea. Where does it come from? Why do South Koreans behave this way?

The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?