
Jonathan Jansen’s Burden
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.
As 42 opposition activists were facing treason charges in Zimbabwe for watching video footage of the
Last December I met the impressive Omoyele Sowore, founder of Nigerian online news site, Sahara Reporters.
Recently Al Jazeera English’s media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South African
How did Kenya and Kenyans get their reputations in US politics, particularly among U.S.. rightwingers, as anti-American?
Homosexuality can get you beheaded in Saudi Arabia and there are several other places with similar policies. But, Uganda’s pretty bad.
Colonel Gaddafi's alleged use of "black mercenaries," has put the question of race in Libya's revolution front and center.
When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture' any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.
Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.
It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about
As the dominant narrative about Paul Kagame began to change, some Western journalists failed to catch up. They get mad when that's pointed out.
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Why the deafening silence from African artists and musicians following the murder of gay activist David Kato?
NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go
The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader, and how
Overheard: “At least he will introduce the Egyptians to the form-fitting black t-shirt.” “If the Egyptians
Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.
Football fan, writer and broadcaster David Goldblatt goes in search of football rivalries in Accra, Cairo,
Look out for a a special issue of African Journalism Studies on “The Fifa World Cup 2010