Gangsters as people’s champions
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.
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The making and unmaking of permanent minorities
Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?
The king is dead
The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Why the tree is producing bad apples
Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.
Zambians don’t deserve their politicians
Ugandans make for good soldiers-for-hire, Radiohead and aparthied, the state of Left American politics and other Weekend Specials.
Transnational eugenics
Few works sufficiently recognize the truly transnational character of the eugenics movement, and how colonial Africa served as the launching pad for it.
What Muhammad Ali Believed
Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.
Building a living archive of struggle
The struggle against the marginalization of students and the exploitation of workers at a historically black university in South Africa.
S is for Samora Machel
We asked about a dozen Africa Is a Country contributors what their favorite books of 2012 were. Here are their picks.
Jakes Gerwel and “the intellectual home of the left”
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.
The Politics of Necessity
…few statistics, while offering a partial and vastly incomplete picture of the brutality of apartheid, demonstrate
How Rashid Vally showed us the way
Rashid Vally, the visionary behind South Africa’s iconic jazz label As-Shams, forged a legacy of revolutionary jazz that defied apartheid and continues to inspire new generations of musicians, activists, and music lovers.
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about race.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Democracy and the left in post-apartheid South Africa
A veteran African National Congress stalwart and member of parliament speaks to Africa Is a Country about the party, South Africa's Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa.
Unearthing the past
How a new film about the murder of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September helps to unearth South Africa’s unresolved past. Stream it live on YouTube. Also subscribe to Patreon.
Who is afraid of Robert Sobukwe?
AIAC Talk explores the life, thought and legacy of the pan-Africanist and anti-apartheid revolutionary, Robert Sobukwe.
Why does the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
The spear of the nation
Apartheid propaganda, white media and Afrikaner nationalists painted Verwoerd's killer as crazy, but Dimitri Tsafendas was a committed political activist.
What are academic boycotts for?
Far from democratic institutions, a study of Israeli universities reveals that they are, in fact, directly and actively complicit in Israeli apartheid and racial rule.