• Saarah Jappie

• Alice de Vries

A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what "liberated, spoiled, but also insecure" Western women can learn from their African counterparts.

• Justin Scott

What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch comedy about an interracial relationship may shape Dutch views of black people there in very negative ways from which they may not recover for a while.

• Tom Devriendt

Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Jacobs

You fill out a form on a Dutch NGO's website and it "gets a bunch of Africans to protest for you." It is not a joke.

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

Through his internet show, "What's Up Africa!," Ikenna Azuike delivers incisive commentary on media and cultural politics with irreverence and humor.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Jacobs

For the next month we'll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There'll be lots of "African" themes.

• Sean Jacobs

Vintage clips, from 1961, of Nelson Mandela, ZK Matthews, Helen Joseph, among others, on a Dutch TV program talking liberation from white supremacy.