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The Cape Town Marathon has become Africa’s first World Marathon Major. But can a city that sees itself as an exception to the continent be its marathon capital?
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The New Black Atlantic
What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.
How Morocco’s diaspora is remaking the nation
When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.
A ranking by any other name
This story of Harvard political scientist, Robert Rotberg, and Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, falling out, is quite something.
The Case of the Missing President
The case of Nigeria's missing president, Umaru Yar'Adua, can be added to the already long list of problems in Africa's largest democracy.
Somalia’s colonizers dressed well
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.
Testing Negative and Other Stories
Here for your reading list: 10 things I have read quickly, seen or watched, listened to, been forwarded, did not really have the time to think about properly.
The Nandos Plot
The chicken fast-food chain’s latest television commercial, riffing on the World Cup, satirizes stereotypical Africa yet risks reproducing the very tropes it mocks instead.
The most influential African thinker
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
Her Zimbabwe
As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.
A Lion in Winter
Isaiah Stein was a sports activist and father of footballers, Edwin (Luton Town), Brian (Luton Town and England) and Mark (Chelsea).
