The Burning
The task for the new generation of South African activists is to reimagine power. That means resisting the impulse to use power in a way that demeans and cheapens and exploits.
Articles by
Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer and think. She is also a contributing editor at Africa is a Country.
The old is dying and the young ones have just been born
Your role in the revolution will not save you. Your history of speech-making and sleeping in a
What is Australia
Is there a place where white people are more committed to faux race blindness than South Africa?
The myth of the new South Africa
In the past few weeks there has been much consternation about the de facto existence of
How to use a sjambok and other lessons from the South African frontlines
Um, so another day in South Africa, another outrageous racist incident. In Cape Town a few
‘There is no Ebola here’: What Liberia teaches us about the failures of aid
Professor Thandika Mkandawire is a development economist with a sharp mind and an even sharper tongue
Belonging—why South Africans refuse to let Africa in
Most black and white South Africans have at least one thing in common: their hatred of other Africans coming from the rest of the continent.