G.O.A.T’s
Diego Maradona is arguably the greatest football player of all time. In Eduardo Galeano's prose, he becomes even greater.
Politics
The folly of barring pregnant girls from school in Sierra Leone
One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.
This is the sound of Cecil John Rhodes falling
Historic moments get a lot of phone camera coverage these days, but I wondered if radio
Maboneng is on fire
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
Labor protests in Swaziland: when no news is not good news
To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.
#AfricanLivesMatter, Why Do They Not Mourn Along With Us?
One week ago, one hundred and forty seven/147 young adults met their death at the hands
Obama’s Sanctions Against Venezuela
Not even the Venezuelan opposition supported Obama’s action.
What is Australia
Is there a place where white people are more committed to faux race blindness than South Africa?
Typical Colombians
"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.
The Rise of a Post-colonial University
In the last two weeks, students belonging to the #RhodesMustFall collective have rechristened and remade of
Googling “Jan van Riebeeck”? This is for you
Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.
Memorializing all Kenya’s terror victims
"I want to go to a place ... where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963."--Binyavanga Wainaina.
How to Govern Nigeria
The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.
How to make sense of #Garissa
For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.
Jonathan runs out of Goodluck
Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.
Will Africa’s Industrial Revolution Be Made in China?
In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.
Should the African Union Run a Country?
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
A Closer Look at Mexico’s Drop in Violence
The catastrophic consequences of Mexico’s militarized war on drugs, despite all the breezy media coverage.
The General
Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.
The Mercenary Playbook
Why do Western media outlets still fantasize that Apartheid's foot soldiers will be the ones to stop Boko Haram?