Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
Politics
What happened to Mbuyisa Makhubo?
A youth activist that came to prominence in the 1976 student uprising in South Africa has been missing since 1978.
Julius Malema’s EFF and the South African Left
It is not often that analysts of diametrically opposed ideological tastes in South Africa agree, except about Julius Malema.
The increasingly shaky edifice of Luanda
How Nito Alves has become the symbol of a slowly emerging movement that has shaken the Angolan government’s narrative of post-conflict stability.
How serious is Renamo’s pro-war rhetoric?
One mitigating factor: The Mozambican opposition movement is weak—in terms of political impact, financial resources, popular support, and military resources.
South Africa is a Continent
Jacob Zuma says out loud what most South Africans believe about themselves: South Africa isn’t in Africa. It’s somewhere else. Somewhere better.
Ayn Rand in South Africa
In its current form libertarianism and its worship of the market is utterly irrelevant to South Africa.
The Nobel Peace Prize: Totally irrelevant?
It is worth going through some of the dodgiest choices made by the Nobel committee in the time they've awarded the Peace Prize first in 1901.
The political arrest of Bandile Mdlalose
Bandile is a giant of the Abahlali baseMjondolo social movement, which agitates for housing for poor, black people,
The Jews of Africa
How some American Zionists make connections between Israel and Rwanda.
Smells like Brazil
Angola spends millions of dollars to host the World Championships in roller hockey (yes). Anyone who think it is a waste of money gets beaten up.
Mapping neoliberalism
if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.
Making sense of the terror attacks in Kenya
Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren't that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.
Rastafari and His Imperial Majesty
It's understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.
Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
The South African Compromise
How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?
Morgan Tsvangirai and Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe
To understand why Tsvangirai's MDC can't win in Zimbabwe, it is helpful to move beyond the standard analysis of systemic electoral corruption and an unfair vote.
These are the days
These are the days when corporate America can tell U.S. workers to stop complaining. They too would be part of the 1% if only they lived in Haiti, or Kenya or Uganda.
Will the UK ever give up on its racist immigration policy?
There have been lots of stories in the British press recently related to immigration, and these
Controversy and the National Arts Theatre in Lagos
The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.