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When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit.
The current leadership in Kenya is made up of individuals whose personal interests run through virtually every sector of Kenya’s economy. Including when they negotiate trade deals.
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Addressing antisemitism in anti-Zionist politics and what Africans can do about the occupation.
At another historical inflection point, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized white Americans’ delusions as the property of the West more broadly.
What came across as recognition of Africa Is a Country from a US State Department official, was more a case of speaking too fast.
AIAC Talk investigates how Israel is courting the continent in a bid for international legitimacy. Watch on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
The writer Mphuthumi Ntabeni's new novel explores the deep history of colonialism and resistance in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Thatcher’s energetic opposition to sanctions and support for right wing forces prolonged the state of violence across the breadth of Southern Africa.
We were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a gallery of 10 of them.
Our weekly update post of things we did not blog about includes a derby goal, a film about the Williams sisters and the passing of a major 20th century South African intellectual.
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
Here's a list of white dictators, including real world ones, who were either African or operated on the continent.
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.
If we stop using terms to describe race at all, we risk undermining our struggle to eliminate racism.
Does South Africa's ruling ANC still fight for the same values it championed 100 years ago?
We couldn't resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.
