The first genocide of the 20th century
The language, methods, and scale of the Herero genocide remain shocking even in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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The Kenyan version of the war on terror
Why the wall Kenya is building on its border with Somalia is a terrible idea.
Goodbye John Shoes Moshoeu
The writer recalls his admiration for the South African midfielder, John Moshoeu, who passed away on April 21, 2015.
Violent Legacies
How Gang Violence in El Salvador Grew (Helped by the U.S.).
Caravana 43
Resisting against the official version of what happened to the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico in September 2014.
Never becoming fully South African
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
The necessity to manifest our own experiences
An interview with the director of the first-ever feature-length film in Quechua, spoken by many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes.
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?