
South Africa


The Price of Leadership
A new series of documentaries explore the politics of leadership via an imaginative, malleable, deeply personal treatment of history.

Oprah and Kristof: What don’t they have in common?
Oprah, like Kristof, turns a personal desire to help sufferers of abuse into a more than acceptable African development program.

World famous in South Africa
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces - at times on par with some of Bob Dylan's work - but he was only famous in South Africa


How to make a movie about Muslims
The South African comedy drama, "Material," portrays Muslims and Islam without resorting to the regular comedic clichés and slapstick.

A Spaza Shop Job
Postapartheid South African music culture is one big cut and paste job.

Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.

The meaning of February 11, 1990
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela — after 27 years — was released from prison.