The Passing of Ernest Cole
We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.
We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.
Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.
Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they're exclusively white.
The Northern Nigeria repping White Nigerian (isn’t he Lebanese Nigerian?), along with JJC, invites us all
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
The made-upness and the shallowness of the Democratic Alliance of South Africa's vision of a non-racial future.
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance, usually very slick and media savvy, have really outdone themselves with a
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Throwback: What happened when Trevor Noah made his debut on American network TV.
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNGoqdQnRk&w=500&h=301&rel=0] Single released April 11th, which is the 30th anniversary of the Brixton riots that levelled
I love this track, “It Would Be,” by Cape Town’s Alleycat (government name: Enslin Grootboom) featuring fellow
Bridging the Western art world and the West African film industry, London-based artist Doug Fishbone cast
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_WxJVxHcw&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Allison Swank Just as Nelson Mandela went underground as the Black Pimpernel in 1961 to
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoqsw3n8D6g&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My man Gary Younge, New York-based feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, has a