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If Africa really is a country . . .
One of our readers took our title literally.
Johannesburg’s Media World Cup
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.
Chris Martin’s Brain
Coldplay’s “Paradise” music video is set in South Africa. The video is mostly is an antiquated perception of the country held by many in the West.
Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian philosopher, talks about coming out as gay.
Black France
The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Louis Moholo’s Drum
The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.
A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
Struggles over memory in South Africa
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
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The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London's "Festival of the World with Mastercard."
Tintingate
Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children's literature.
Why does South African history continue to be written primarily by white scholars?
The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.
The Foreign Coach
Africa's men's national football teams have failed to improve under foreign coaches and there is nothing to suggest that this state of affairs will ever improve.
The prerogative of a lame duck President
Why Goodluck Jonathan's presidential pardons are a bad idea.