The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”
What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.
South Africa
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a "Pro Twerk Team" may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media's repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?
Freedom Day
The ways in which Nelson Mandela’s image as a referent of South Africa's recent past has been appropriated, signified and transformed into material form as commemoration.
The story of a lost white boy
The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa's rainbow shibboleths.
Makerena on Marikana
A conversation with South African artist Masello Motana on pop stars, politicians and personhood.
The “many mistakes” of the white Afrikaner past
Public history about Afrikaners in South Africa is disingenous and predictabiy don't want to deal with history.
Dirk Coetzee is Dead
The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
Marcus Garvey’s Africa
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
The media’s culture of confirmation bias
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
The Soweto Derby Sale
Kaizer Chiefs vs Orlando Pirates is South Africa's fiercest football rivalry. It is increasingly less about the football and more about merchandise on offer to fans of both teams, especially Chiefs.
Blackface is Okay on Peruvian TV
The shows play on the worst stereotypes associated with Afro-Peruvians and uncritically exhibits these for the whole Peruvian nation to watch.
The Book of Marikana
Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.