The Poo Fighters
Townships and informal settlements are not dump grounds but living breathing communities where the residents are tired of being treated like shit.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Our colonial torturers
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
The flag-bearers of dub in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past
Your truths are self-evident. Ours are a mystery
In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called “the African non-archive.”
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
Black History in Amsterdam
Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands’ commercial capital.
The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
Meeting Sembène
An Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako, director of films like ‘La Vie Sur Terre,’ ‘Rostov-Luanda,’ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ and ‘Bamako.’
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a “Pro Twerk Team” may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
The battle over the 27th of May in Angola
Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany’s a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
The new and improved Africa is a Country is here
After weeks of promising you a new design, we’re back with a brand-new and improved blog. This is a big day for us.
Africa is a Country is getting a makeover
We’re updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s new film “Grigris” and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir, among others.
The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
The unfounded fears of a Zulu hegemony
The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country’s other indigenous languages for use in higher education.
The Real Housewives of Harare
It’s election season in Zimbabwe, and so, as before, the State has engaged in 'urban renewal’
Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country’s present.
Enough is enough
Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
Weekend Music Break, N°42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYvyZBmN3s Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass (the Mozambican-Portuguese-Ghanaian-German duo who go by the name of Gato