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.
racism
Apartheid is not truly behind us
It makes perfect sense for the City of Cape Town to name one of the city's busiest roads after F.W. de Klerk.
The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa's second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.
Explaining Racism to a White South African Liberal
Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.
The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
Racial Degeneracy and Cowardice
The failure of Americans to have a concerted conversation on racism is not surprising. Too much is at stake for too many people, interests and institutions.
Mohamed so-and-so from such-and-such
Ridley Scott's "Exodus" and deeply rooted issues of bigotry and racism in Hollywood.
Remembering Differently
Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.
Belgium’s blackface problem
Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.
Tis the blackface season in the Netherlands
Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.
How To Use a Sjambok
This and other lessons from the South African front lines.
What’s the matter with . . . Stellenbosch University
Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.
Germany has its own “Sinterklaas Scandal”
Why is it so difficult to understand when we Africans say that it’s offensive?
Brett Bailey, The Barbican and Black Britons
If "Exhibit B" truly offered the profound critique of slavery and colonialism its creators claimed, why the outrage? Why object to confronting silenced, gazing human “tableaux”?
Can an algorithm be racist?
Google translators limitations make for sometimes funny, sometimes dangerous results.
White Schools in postapartheid South Africa
"Former" white schools propose color blindness to tackle racism against its new black students, invariably leading to alienation and discomfort on the part of the latter.