• Sean Henry Jacobs

Don't expect "Invictus" to break from the "rainbow nation" narrative despite that symbolism's sell buy date having long expired. 

• Herman Wasserman

The curious appeal of a band of celebrity Afrikaner musicians engaging with a quite easily defined past and present.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A busy week means a lot of stuff gets the speed blog treatment. Among others, the African country that gets the worst treatment in US media.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This story of Harvard political scientist, Robert Rotberg, and Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, falling out, is quite something.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For someone who knows music, not sure why Ghostface Killah thought Vampire Weekend is riding a Jamaican riddim in the very popular song, 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's Life President since 1980, bested CNN's Christiane Amampour.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The mixing of popular protest and music in protests over electricity cuts in Senegal.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

That time Nigeria's government objected to a commercial for SONY's PS3 video game console.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

What was Johannesburg newspaper, The Star, hoping to achieve with this dehumanizing image?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This book explores love, that stuff most Western journalists rarely write about when they write about Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

The mass support for Caster Semenya among South Africans is paradoxical: of a country deeply divided, yet at certain moments strangely united around a common cause.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Cape Town group, Prophets of da City, should get credit for kickstarting South African hip hop. They were also politically righteous.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In 1971, Carlos Santana went to play in Ghana at a massive independence day concert. It felt like being at home.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'District 9' comments on contemporary politics about domination, race and immigration, especially in South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A comic book, published by an imprint of DC Comics, is set during the Ugandan Civil War.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Hip hop artists from Senegal, to Morocco, to Angola, to the United States perform for Burundian political activist, Alexis Sinduhije.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Robbie Jansen is a key figure in what is referred to as South African, especially Cape Town, jazz.