South Africa
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?
Against the Values of the Market
Johnny Issel, who has died at age 68, was a prominent activist for leftist social movements in 1980s South Africa.
South Africa’s Glorious Moment
it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.
African Immigrant Life in New York City
Students in my Media and Africa seminar at The New School create short video profiles of African immigrant experiences in New York City. Here I highlight a few of the striking ones.
The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
Learning Zulu
The author, a German journalist new to South Africa, writes about her first impressions and experiences, especially with local whites; so different from anything she knew or experienced before.
