How we tell stories about cities
We must not forget the everyday lived realities and struggles in vanished neighborhoods.
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela is around like never before
Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.
A history of violence
This is the second in a 3 part series of posts on sexual violence against women, focuses on the campaign strategies of groups led by men who fight gender-based violence.
The “many mistakes” of the white Afrikaner past
Public history about Afrikaners in South Africa is disingenous and predictabiy don't want to deal with history.
Peter Beinart went to South Africa
Somebody tell Beinart support for Palestinians is not support for Muslims over Jews in the ruling party. It's for an occupied people over a repressive state.
Ronald Reagan’s Africa
Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.
Canada and the cover of whiteness
Canadian immigration - while discouraging Roma from applying for refugee status - welcomes the worst of Apartheid South Africa's perpetrators.
We write what we like about Steve Biko
What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?
Radio Freedom’s Afrikaans Service
Learning that Radio Freedom, the exiled ANC's radio service, broadcast in Afrikaans, further undermines the idea of the language as belonging to the oppressor.
The Price of Leadership
A new series of documentaries explore the politics of leadership via an imaginative, malleable, deeply personal treatment of history.
World famous in South Africa
Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces - at times on par with some of Bob Dylan's work - but he was only famous in South Africa
The meaning of February 11, 1990
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela--after 27 years--was released from prison.
Tech Apartheid
Our tech posts never stray from tweeting new data on Twitter and Facebook usage on the
Paul Simon’s Graceland Reconsidered
Paul Simon's Graceland album and tour defied the cultural boycott, yet some argue it positively influenced South African music and politics in the late 1980s.
Occupy Africa
How do Africans–ground zero for resource extraction by the world’s 1%–feel about the now global ‘Occupy’
The Dutch Disease
The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.
Song and Dance
By Dan Moshenberg Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National
Oh, Canada
Sean, AIAC's editor, reflects, in a drive-buy fashion, on Canada's travel rules and some reasons why Toronto is a great place to visit.
Animal Farm
In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad
It’s time to be offended
Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.