Isabel’s People
When Forbes, who used to celebrate the Dos Santos family, starts asking questions about the wealth of Angola's rulers.
Politics
There is no liberal tradition in South Africa
Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.
That uncomfortable feeling
The ‘premature’ launch of South Africa’s second 24-hour news television channel.
While we wait for election results in Mali
Here's a selection of articles that go the extra mile and poke holes in the narrow frame of the "Malian crisis."
Julius Malema’s next move
In South Africa, many youth votes are up for grabs for the first time, from the generation facing 70% unemployment and with little loyalty to the ANC of their parents.
At the Protests for Trayvon Martin
The focus should be on white people. Why have so many of us chosen not to demonstrate?
Return from the Promised Land
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
George Bush and Nicholas Kristof’s Hunger Games
We hope the “women of Africa,” who are being discovered yet again, appreciate all the good work being done for them.
Nelson Mandela is around like never before
Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.
Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
Autonomy in Barcelona
The story of the Mount Zion community, largely made up of West African men collecting scrap metal all over Barcelona.
The responsibility of media to women
Most men in South Africa share the same ideas about manhood that fuel assaults against women. The media should keep the spotlight on that.
The infamous Cape Town hospitality
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
The Poo Fighters
Townships and informal settlements are not dump grounds but living breathing communities where the residents are tired of being treated like shit.
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany's a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
The unfounded fears of a Zulu hegemony
The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country's other indigenous languages for use in higher education.
Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country's present.
The Minister of Earth and Sky
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
Aristide Zolberg and African Studies
A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.
Did Britain’s MI6 put a hit on Lumumba?
When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.