• Sean Henry Jacobs

Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.

• Aaron Kohn

In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.

• Caitlin L Chandler

An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.

• Lily Saint

The success of 'Mies Julie' tells us more about the way that audiences in the Global North like to think about South Africa than it does about actual South Africa.

• Thomas Blaser

The chance that the lives of South Africa's poor will change for the better without struggle, is slim.

• Clarissa Cummings

The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.

• Alice de Vries

Children's Radio Foundation's shows are a testament to children’s capacity to be agents for change and to confront critical community issues themselves.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa - where political and economic power are at odds - what happens in gay spaces?

• Steffan Horowitz

They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.

• Brett Davidson

The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.

• Africa Is a Country

Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.

• Tom Devriendt

• Amkelwa Mbekeni Kapanen

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Cedric Nunn's photography reflects the complex emotions of his black South African subjects, their humanity, dignity, in very personal terms.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.

• Lily Saint

The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she's been reading.