The myth of Trump’s white working-class support
The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.
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Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
The Indian-African alliance
Little attention is given to how Indians are viewed and treated not only on the African continent, but by peoples of African descent across the world.
Next time you see the Mediterranean
The number of African migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean is a tragedy, shamefully under-analyzed over the past 20 years.
Caught offside
Some African football fans have been hate-watching Bafana Bafana at the World Cup because of South Africa’s anti-migrant politics. The team’s apolitical stance has left them without a defense.
The post Trump fortunes of South Africa’s white nationalists
South Africa's white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.
How many immigrants live in South Africa?
The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.
Africa doesn’t care about its women
I have the privilege to fight, argue or board a plane when I feel like I've had enough. The vast majority of women on the continent do not have that option.
The contradictions of Africa-China in Guangzhou
The reality for Africans living in China's 'African City' contrast greatly with the way their governments and China's leaders interact.
The role of diaspora in revolution
Sudanese living abroad are key to the uprising: raising awareness and support for political and social transformation back home.
Decolonization’s borders
Recent restrictions on refugees — and the limited protests against them — reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.
The myth of South African nationality
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
More morbid symptoms
Much of what passes for politics these days is actually just anti-politics: not a function of too much politicization, but a severe lack of it.
Mobilizing in disorder
Post the looting and failed insurrection, what would it mean for the South African left to undertake a populist political strategy? And should it look to South America for inspiration? A long read.
Memories are to be shared
It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.
The two Africas
In the latest controversies about race and ancient Egypt, both the warring ‘North Africans as white’ and ‘black Africans as Afrocentrists’ camps find refuge in the empty-yet-powerful discourse of precolonial excellence.
United by football?
At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.
The mine dumps of Silicon Valley
While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.
Americans, after all
End of the year reflections on the United States of America, from the Global South.
Caught at the border
Asylum seekers from Africa are caught in a growing crisis at the US-Mexico border, as Trump's policies leave them in legal limbo and unsafe conditions.