Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
Nelson Mandela
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
Manning Marable
On Monday a new book on Malcolm X by the American intellectual and historian Manning Marable
Mandela in X-Large
We were hoping it would not come to this: The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched an
Google Mandela
You know what Nelson Mandela was trying to calculate in the image embedded above, right? While
Fact Checking Mandela
It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about
‘Where was Mandela between 1964 and 1990?’
The American (celebrity) writer Kitty Kelley’ on writing an “unauthorized biography” of Nelson Mandela:
The supermodel’s revenge
Charles Taylor’s trial at the International Criminal Court is verging on the trivial.
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.
Boers and Bantus
Vintage clips, from 1961, of Nelson Mandela, ZK Matthews, Helen Joseph, among others, on a Dutch TV program talking liberation from white supremacy.
Songs for Nelson Mandela
The top tunes dedicated to Nelson Mandela, arguably the most recognizable liberation figure from South Africa.
That’s Not Rugby
Don't expect "Invictus" to break from the "rainbow nation" narrative despite that symbolism's sell buy date having long expired.
Joe Slovo is still one of my heroes
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid and one of the most visible white face of that movement.