The Nobel Peace Prize: Totally irrelevant?
It is worth going through some of the dodgiest choices made by the Nobel committee in the time they've awarded the Peace Prize first in 1901.
Politics
Palestine Scores
European football officials may have missed it, but Palestine already scored several goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
The political arrest of Bandile Mdlalose
Bandile is a giant of the Abahlali baseMjondolo social movement, which agitates for housing for poor, black people,
What the Italian press said about Lampedusa
After the death of at least 130 Somalian and Eritrean migrants off the coast of the
The Jews of Africa
How some American Zionists make connections between Israel and Rwanda.
In Sudan, “freedom for my mum”
In Sudan, the numbers of women political prisoners are rising, largely because the numbers of women
Oscar Pistorius to be allowed to visit ailing Mandela–but without his gun
The visit would be a good opportunity for the nation to collectively heal; after all, both Oscar and Madiba have been through adversity.
Smells like Brazil
Angola spends millions of dollars to host the World Championships in roller hockey (yes). Anyone who think it is a waste of money gets beaten up.
Mapping neoliberalism
if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.
Making sense of the terror attacks in Kenya
Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren't that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.
The Disneyfication of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.
Rastafari and His Imperial Majesty
It's understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.
Criminal Media
South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.
Zimbabwe’s Forgotten 20%
Zimbabwe makes a good story for western writers and readers. The staggering racism of the Rhodesian
Elections and Ethnicity in Guinea
There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there's an election he exploits ethnic divisions.
“Exceptional kaffirs”
The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.
Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
Nelson Mandela To Be Renamed
The move comes in light of recent confusion over who owns Mandela’s legacy.
A Century of Land Dispossession in South Africa
Interview with Ben Cousins, founder of PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, and who has researched land reform since 1989.
Immigrant, noun.
Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.