Chris Hani’s black Marxism
Chris Hani’s legacy is often reduced to debates about his assassination in April 1993, but his significance goes beyond South Africa’s democratic transition.
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How to think about colonialism
Contemporary approaches to the legacy of colonialism tend to narrowly emphasize political agency as the solution to Africa’s problems. But agency is configured through historically particular relations of which we are not sole authors.
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
The Boys are doing it
South Africa's Bafana Bafana, the hosts, has to make it out of the group stage of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for this tournament to be deemed a success.
Reading List: Pedro Monaville
Pedro Monaville selects key texts that helped shape a new book on Congolese student-driven left nationalism in the aftermath of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination.
Editing pan-Africanism
Many know Frene Ginwala, the iconic anti-apartheid activist, as democratic South Africa’s first speaker of parliament. But few know of her time building pan-African media in Dar Es Salaam.
Why does the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.
Sodade
Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.
When The Sartorialist went to Johannesburg
In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.
The “Caribbeanization” of Afrobeat in Colombia
In Colombia, doing straightforward political music carries many risks, including confronting state repression, political armed rebellions, and organized crime.
Discovering a country through film
Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.
Reimagining non-alignment
In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.
Wathinta abafazi, wathinta imbokodo
How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.
With what are you apologizing?
If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.
Struggles over memory in South Africa
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.