A wild fig grows in Rowan Street
Professor Sampie Terreblanche, who passed away at 84 on February 17, 2018, was one of South Africa's foremost political economists.
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Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
One Percent Feminism
Neoliberalism's model of social justice: the rich prosper, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or women.
How business news shapes Africa’s image
A study of Reuters suggests news media is not a simple mirror to the world: News content is a crafted, cultural product.
The masters of the improbable
In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil's World Cup squad.
Africa rising? A historical perspective
African demographic growth is expected to continue unabated over the next century. How should poverty reduction be addressed on the continent?
The Mandelas at Harlem’s Africa Square
The Mandelas and Africa's place in African American politics and popular culture.
Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin
Samir Amin's life resembled that of Karl Marx: a man without a homeland, but one whose home was a chosen commitment to a historical project.
Albert Luthuli, MLK and global human rights
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
Will Kenya’s courts let gay people live?
Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.
After the scramble
It's time to return Africa's vinyl records.
Can a hamburger free a people?
Duane Jethro goes to South African fast food chain, Chicken Licken, to eat a Big John Burger, and finds out the postcolonial feelings it inspires.
The manifestation of climate injustice
Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, David S. Williams highlights the effects climate changes will have on communities in informal urban areas.
The white hunter
Outrage against arrogant hunters is not enough. Wildlife conservation requires rethinking.
The long short history of post-apartheid South African rugby
The compromises and conciliations of South African rugby mirror the unfinished transition from apartheid racism in the broader society.
The poverty of poor economics
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics experiment on the poor, but their research doesn't solve poverty.
The façade of liberal democracy
To actively combat rightwing extremism, we need to leave behind the fiction that liberals will inoculate western societies from fascism.
A worthy ancestor
The world is out of joint and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of its great public intellectuals, has left us—albeit with tools to battle the dying kicks of capitalism.
Impounded sandwiches
One major historical function of the police in South Africa remains: to manage the poor.
Who will watch the watchmen?
Who will watch the police and the army in South Africa as they act on behalf of the state to enforce COVID-19 regulations.