Colonial Fantasies
Just a sample: A "Heart of Darkness"-themed ship, Tarzan in South Africa and a travelogue on the Congo River.
Search Result(s) for: “London”
The Making of Hashim Amla
Hashim Amla’s appearances on the cricket pitch and its meaning, reflects similarly on South Africa’s own, ongoing, liberation struggle.
George Bush and Nicholas Kristof’s Hunger Games
We hope the “women of Africa,” who are being discovered yet again, appreciate all the good work being done for them.
Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
Nigeria’s drama filled history
The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
On African Fiction(s)
Who decides where African fiction begins and ends and which (African) writers fall within its ambit?
How Nollywood can save African Literature
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.
Zimbabwe is a victim of outsiders’ fantasies
Zimbabwe is its own self, its own country, not some echo chamber from which people hope to catch reverberated strains of their own discourses.
Summer in the City
Weekend Music Break 49 makes stops in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and with the diaspora in Australia, among others.
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.
There is no liberal tradition in South Africa
Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.
Sathima’s swansong
There is a time for everything: Between Afropunk and the passing of a musical legend, Sathima Bea Benjamin, is our Weekend Music Break.
Africans in New York City
"Afro-Spectacle," a music and film event by DJ collective, Dutty Artz, explores the working class African immigrant experiences in the city.
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.
Täschligate
Why does Oprah Winfrey or anyone else need a $38,000 handbag and why would someone sell her that.
Great Literature and the Screen
Film adaption of an epic novel is a fine and difficult art; one that the creators of "Half of a Yellow Sun" did not pull off.