
Cape Town Pride’s Race Card
What happens when a corporate model of Pride is used to homogenize and silence those without privilege and power?

What happens when a corporate model of Pride is used to homogenize and silence those without privilege and power?

Cape Town's goals: designing a more tourist-friendly European City, while keeping the unwanted and unsightly on the other side of the mountain.

The story of African migrants entering the Eurozone by sea is basically indecipherable as it is told in global and national media reports, because they are described only as helpless victims.

Both in and outside of Africa, there is an argumentative frenzy around the instability of gender and sex and non-conforming performances of gender.

Here’s the `other’ news from Uganda this week. Dateline: Kampala: “Police have warned the public against

Bloomberg Africa evokes Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen" stereotype for poor South Africans.

Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.

The writer, Chimamanda Adichie, lines up the homophobic arguments against rights for gay people and knocks them down one by one.

Amy Chua's racist nonsense about "model minorities," peddling the lie that elites are on top because they're better.

Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth

Real talk: Who else is tired of gender/race swapping to make a point about racism/sexism? I

If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.

Every side-eye, cringe, SMH and WTF in the world has gathered for a family reunion in

William Gumede, who wrote a book about the ANC, makes a strange and careless argument--without recourse to evidence--about the ruling party's fortunes.

How a documentary about a radio station provides a window into aid policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

How South Africa's media report on the doings within the official parliamentary opposition, the Democratic Alliance.

This is big: Blackwater has set up a new Africa-focused military contractor, partnering with one of China's largest state-owned conglomerates.

A contemporary of the late BBC journalist and newsreader remembers how their paths cross and Komla Dumor's lasting legacy.

In what amounts to another pointless exercise, the Washington Post repeated its 2013 map of countries most likely to have a coup. Of course, African countries are at the top of the list.

The first African head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, on how the world could best do justice to Mandela.