Just us voting?
The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.
South Africa
The limits of self-professed hypocrisy
In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.
Born of struggle
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.
An unfinished project
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
Born free?
South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.
Border politics
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
Speaking as one African to another
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?
The limits of international solidarity
The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid.
From Salt River to the sea
When the the Palestinian Men’s National Team played an exhibition match in Cape Town, South Africa, it might as well have been a home game.
And do not hinder them
We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.
The life and work of Edward Webster
The life of Edward Webster, one of South Africa’s most distinguished sociologists, can be compared to a windmill—taking in the winds of change and turning them into a prodigious intellectual engagement.
Mandela for sale
Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?
Who’s afraid of academic boycotts?
South Africa’s Wits University likes to vaunt its anti-apartheid credentials. So why is it cozy with Israel and Zionism?
The league of nations
If South Africa’s Premier Soccer league matters, it is because it’s the country’s most successful pan-Africanist project.
The amapiano wars
Between the Grammys and AFCON semi-final, it's been a big week for the rivalry between Nigeria and South Africa.
Just Us for Palestine
Africa Is a Country is proud to present a partnership with the popular South African podcast Just Us Under a Tree. On this episode, the Just Us crew analyze South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.
The revolution will be photographed
Peter Magubane was one of South Africa’s foremost resistance photojournalists, exposing the world to the cruel spectacle of the apartheid regime.
Punching above its weight
South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding even the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.
Understanding South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel
South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Beyoncé’s Sun City moment
The release of 'Renaissance' in Israel has spelled the end of informed indifference when it comes to Beyoncé and other stars who choose to do business with the apartheid regime.