South African Jazz for Nelson Mandela
A playlist of jazz tunes dedicated to South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.
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Rebranding French imperialism
Although the Africa Forward Summit in Kenya was framed as a partnership, it was actually France desperately looking for a new door into a continent that wants to throw it out.
Somali first, Muslim second, gay third
The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.
I am a homosexual, mum
A lost chapter from Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," dated 11 July, 2000, the day his mother passed away.
The most important public intellectual of the last 50 years
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
The day South African news media ate crow
How South Africa's media report on the doings within the official parliamentary opposition, the Democratic Alliance.
How to deal with uncomfortable journalists
If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.
Henry Kissinger’s South Africa
In the 1970s, Kissinger believed that the liberation of southern Africa from white-minority rule represented a Cold War setback.
Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
Before And After The Disco
The self-titled debut album of Ibibio Sound Machine, features songs mostly in the southern Nigerian language of lead vocalist, Eno Williams.
The revolution will be photographed
Peter Magubane was one of South Africa’s foremost resistance photojournalists, exposing the world to the cruel spectacle of the apartheid regime.
New Ways of Seeing The World
An interview with director Tala Hadid and producer Danny Glover of "A Narrow Frame of Midnight," set amidst political turmoil in Morocco.
When we say apartheid
We need to envisage a future where colonial privileges between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea are completely dismantled.
Notes from the Native Yards
Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz's music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.
History in the active voice
Research and investigative journalism have begun to identify the agents of Apartheid South Africa's violent history.