
Dirk Coetzee is Dead
The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
There is nothing heroic about running a cushy, big-spending non-profit like Invisible Children that works hand-in-glove with the CIA and the US military.
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
The latest in a series of interviews by Roxsanne Dyssel. This time, with Egyptian photographer and blogger, Mohamed Elshahed.
The Ugandan photographer: "It gets even more complicated being a photojournalist in Africa feeding foreign channels with African events."
The main takeaway from #Kony2012 is that it will probably retain some salience—despite the widespread criticism
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.
The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?
As of March 1 this year, the new base salary for farm workers in South Africa
Al Jazeera falls for the fiction that business entrepreneurship and corporate capitalism will be Africa’s saving grace.
Traveling 'off the beaten path' in Africa seems to have become the next 'big thing' for recent graduates looking to set themselves apart from their peers.
John Chilembwe is Malawi's first great anti-colonial hero. Why do our media outlets mainly rely on Wikipedia to give us “facts” about him?
Africa is everywhere on "Landing on a Hundred," the new album by American guitarist and singer, Cody ChesnuTT. It's in the instrumentation, the arrangements and in his voice.
This is not a neo-colonial offensive. The argument that it is might be comfortable and familiar, but it is bogus and ill-informed.
Plying potential audiences with expansive vistas, mystery, exotic landscapes, and ancient holdovers are time worn formulas when presenting Africa to Western audiences.
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.
The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.