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Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.
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Author RW Johnson's latest aberration is a mix of fiction and lazy research that misrepresents anti-apartheid struggle leaders.

When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.

South African and Palestinian poets on the shared experiences of Apartheid and resistance. This week on AIAC Talk. Watch it Tuesday on Youtube.

Engaging seriously with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life could help us understand how South Africa got where it is and where it’s going.

Ugandans make for good soldiers-for-hire, Radiohead and aparthied, the state of Left American politics and other Weekend Specials.

Few works sufficiently recognize the truly transnational character of the eugenics movement, and how colonial Africa served as the launching pad for it.

Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.

The struggle against the marginalization of students and the exploitation of workers at a historically black university in South Africa.

…few statistics, while offering a partial and vastly incomplete picture of the brutality of apartheid, demonstrate

All that French marketing schtick aside about "the white Zulu," Johnny Clegg was a real one.

The fate of the University of the Western Cape, set up for coloureds, radicalized by black consciousness and from where the ANC prepared to govern.

That reactionary politics today lack a mass character is what makes them so dangerous.

We asked about a dozen Africa Is a Country contributors what their favorite books of 2012 were. Here are their picks.

The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.

Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.

Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?

In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.

Where do these debates about the place of coloureds and Indians in South Africa come from?