
The trouble with South Africa’s middle class
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.
Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.
Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.
Guest post by Rosie Spinks Hear the words ‘alternative energy in Africa’ and you might think
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
American media should focus on the real political struggles in Zimbabwe and not think that the government of national unity has brought Zimbabwe out of a period of violent political conflict.
The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).
Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her "austerity" agenda.
Pieter Hugo, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?
Watching a 34 year old Benni McCarthy back in South Africa with Orlando Pirates, leave many observers with a lingering feeling that he could have achieved so much more.
The coverage of Lesotho's 2012 elections don't move beyond superficialities and actually delve into the complexities of local politics.
Between the relentless media coverage, the twitter deluge, the pronouncement by a South African judge (“This
The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.
The fantasies of Blackwater, the Michigan firm of mercenaries and as contractor to imperial powers. Also, how it employs Africa as a rhetorical device to get more business.
Starting on April 1, South Africa’s public TV channel SABC3 has been running a weekly series
What is it with the conviction, held primarily in the West, that you can save yourself and the world (well, usually Africans) by shopping?
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
A BBC reporter visits the old fields of southeast Nigeria, the site of massive exploitation by Shell Oil--in a helicopter provided by Shell.