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Thinking About Genocide
An extract from Mahmood Mamdani's seminal study, 'When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda."
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.
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.