• Shobana Shankar

Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.

• Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb thinks she knows why black South African readers appreciate Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Promise' (2021) whilst many white readers were turned off by it.

• Nicky Falkof

What happens to the contemporary explosion of moral panics, urban legends, and other paranoid narratives when they manifest in a place like South Africa?

• Zachary Levenson

The historian Premesh Lalu’s film about an apartheid-era cinema on the Cape Flats also offers a glimpse of a future beyond racism for South Africa.

• Faisal Ali

The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.

• Axolile Notywala

Cape Town-based activist Axolile Notywala wants to bring people from different backgrounds together to build a movement on what it means to be free in South Africa.

• Chris Webb

The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms.

• Helidah Ogude-Chambert

To understand why it is single young men that are the primary target of Britain’s deportation of asylum-seekers to Rwanda, we need to revisit the country’s history.

• Kyle Anderson

Pharaonism, a mode of national identification linking people living in Egypt today with ancient pharaohs. It emerged partly as an alternative to colonial British efforts to racialize Egyptians as people of color.

• Laura Burocco

At the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, all is not well when it comes to relative newcomers from the African continent.

• Boima Tucker

On this month's AIAC Radio, Boima celebrates all things basketball, looking at its historical relationships with music and race, then focusing on Africa's biggest names in the sport.

• Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's novel "The Theory of Flight" may be the first to take seriously Zimbabwe’s complicated race politics, beyond the obvious black vs whites.

• Hisham Aïdi

Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

David Samaai was the first black (and coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949. He was 21 years old. He did so before the Americans, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

• Youlendree Appasamy

Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?

• Michael Nassen Smith

South African cricket is currently the subject of TRC-style hearings into the racism and nepotism in the game. It makes for riveting TV, but focuses too much on individual instances of racism and discrimination.

• Leila O. Tayeb

What happens when we take the study of whiteness from settler colonial contexts into the postcolony?

• Siphiwe I. Dube

South African politics remain fertile ground for new orientations: mainly by black conservatives.

• Chris Vasantkumar

Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.

• Ayça Çubukçu

The political philosopher Achille Mbembe’s latest book asks us to emerge from the enclosure of race.