It’s Not Just About Cecil John Rhodes
Statues of icons of colonialism continue to exist in their visibly unaltered state throughout South Africa’s major cities.
Politics
Rhodes Must Fall Everywhere
Aside from the heady enthusiasm of campus politics, is there any variable that unites these seemingly disparate campus struggles and what can they learn from one another?
The statue in the garbage bag
Watch: South Africa's 'born frees' gag on the rainbow nation pill they've been fed for the past 21 years.
The Myth of the New South Africa
In South Africa, the old is alive and well and surging alongside everything that is trying to be new.
Photo of the Day: Irony arrives to Brazil
In today’s news, the mainstream Brazilian media try their hardest to illustrate that protests against, and calls for
What are you scared about, Joseph Kabila
Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Why the US should seek closer cooperation with Iran in the fight against Boko Haram
Richard Nixon visited Mao’s Zedong’s China 43 years ago, from 21 to 28 February 1972. His stay
The wounded buffalo
President Filipe Nyusi's government will be more remembered for preventing protests by an increasingly disenfranchised Mozambican public.
Eu Sou Cistac
What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.
Is This the Maturation of Politics in Lesotho?
Development, broadly defined, has dominated Lesotho’s political discourse throughout its nearly 50 years of independence. This
In the Name of Africa
For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.
President Obiang and the Samba School
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
The imagination of the United Nations
Why aren’t Africans living on the continent part of the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent?
Some problems between the people and the police
What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.
The hierarchy of refugee stories
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
Do we really need new street names?
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid's last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
Party like its 1999
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
Maputo’s masked Mapiko dancers
A new film about how Mozambican youth express and negotiate the country's post-socialist modernity through dance.
The Black Messiah
John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.
Security Killings: American Police Violence, from Ferguson to Nairobi
The world watched U.S. tanks roll into Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, in a misguided attempt