• Pablo Medina Uribe

Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.

• Africa Is a Country

Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.

• Alice de Vries

Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.

• Corinna Jentzsch

Why is it so difficult to understand when we Africans say that it’s offensive?

• Herman Wasserman

That old excuse of ‘We didn’t know’ (previously also heard as ‘Ons het nie geweet nie’ and ‘Wir haben es nicht gewuszt’) may be factually accurate, but it is never an ethical defense.

• Chandra Frank

What the Amsterdam court ruling against blackface figure Zwarte Piet really means.

• Serginho Roosblad

Saying that blackface is an American thing (everyone now uses this excuse) and therefore not a problem anywhere else, makes you look dumb.

• Erin MacLeod

Interview with Verene Shepherd, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on People of African Descent.

• Chandra Frank
• Serginho Roosblad

The Dutch can't hide how racist the "tradition" of the blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is. Here we parody their rationalizations.

• T.O. Molefe

Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?

• María Ximena Plaza

The shows play on the worst stereotypes associated with Afro-Peruvians and uncritically exhibits these for the whole Peruvian nation to watch.

• Sonja Sugira

In the music video for her latest single, "Rockstar 101," singer Rihanna appears in what looks like blackface.

• Rustum Kozain

Die Antwoord is basically blackface. But blackface is also tricky, argues poet and writer Rustum Kozain.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The historian John Edwin Mason's photographs of Cape Town's New Year's Carnival.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The popular Australian show, "Hey Hey It's Saturday Night!," on Channel 9, thought it would be okay to revive blackface.