What is to be done?
The German government will have to make a substantial move towards accommodating the demands of the Namibian people.
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White settler states and secret police forces
How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.
The media’s culture of confirmation bias
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
Burying Comrade Nelson Mandela
For some of us, the official celebrations are missing a crucial element: Celebrating Nelson Mandela as a figure of armed struggle and the liberation movement.
Israel’s Africa strategy
AIAC Talk investigates how Israel is courting the continent in a bid for international legitimacy. Watch on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
Ramphele has never enjoyed widespread grassroots support as a political figure in South Africa and hasn't been in active in any political movement for at least 30 years now.
The struggle for moral authority in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
Rhodes Must Fall from Zimbabwe
Protests are important because they raise awareness. Awareness leads to dialogue. And dialogue may lead to lasting solutions.
Why South Africa needs Democratic Socialism
South African politics urgently needs an injection of electoral energy from the left, that speaks in a language that resonates with voters, rejects chauvinism and embraces democracy.
When Nelson Mandela had an Ethiopian Passport
In April 1962, Mandela traveled on an Ethiopian passport in the name of David Motsomayi. He visited Morocco, Algeria, and Mali.
Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
Reading List: Lily Saint
The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she's been reading.
The Dutch ‘King of Africa’
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.
The Uprising
Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.
What is learning for?
The ideal South African is not the citizen but the consumer, and this is impressed upon children immediately when some are sent to private schools.
The Kalahari cattle market
Land, landlessness and the German genocide of Namibians at the turn of the 20th century.
The post-1994 power brokers and black liberation
Where does this leave the majority of largely poor, black and unskilled people affected by the competing interests of powerful groups?