
Jamming for Sanitation
In some of Cape Town's black townships, residents have to stand in line to use one of the portable chemical toilets made available to them.

In some of Cape Town's black townships, residents have to stand in line to use one of the portable chemical toilets made available to them.

Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.

Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that's where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?

One of the leaders of Zimbabwe's opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.

We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.

Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.
Despite my skepticism about “top 10” lists, I waded through the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn’s Think Tanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnrHhRLFPqo One of the human rights activists featuring in the 2009 documentary Cameroon: Coming Out of

“The Zimbabwe Alliance is a funder/advocate partnership to promote a vibrant civil society and a successful

The 46-minute video of the 2010 BBC World “Debate” with the unfortunate title: “Is Homosexuality Un-African?”
“There are three myths about technology,” [according to] Harish Hande, founder of SELCO-India, a “social enterprise”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GvkDgP30A Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities’ tap water and

We were hoping it would not come to this: The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched an

A mix of factors - language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression - prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.

A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.

Probably to deal with the stresses associated with next month general elections scheduled for next month–there’s

You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While

Just about this time last year, Uganda lost a priceless part of its cultural heritage when
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg18qsycBk It’s late already, but it is still March 6: Ghana Independence Day. Dutch rapper Kno’Ledge

Colonel Gaddafi's alleged use of "black mercenaries," has put the question of race in Libya's revolution front and center.