As market vendors are beaten and the sick unable to move to hospitals, the wealthy prepare for the long-haul in their solar-powered homes.
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A Letter Unanswered
Did Frantz Fanon ask Léopold Sedar Senghor for a job in 1953? And what might have happened to postcolonial psychiatry in Senegal if Senghor had given him one?
In the back and in the side
South Africa’s Human Rights Day (originally Sharpeville Day) holds a special place in the nation’s history.
Pentecostal promise and a South African dream deferred
Public anxiety grows over “prosperity preachers” who have dominated the religious landscape in South Africa and across the continent.
Rouge Impératrice
Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.
Reading List: T.J. Tallie
Among the books historian Tallie has on his reading list is one about the food of the American Old South—“… a forgotten Little Africa but nobody speaks of it that way.”
COVID-19 Dispatches
South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.
What are the roles of the African Union and the African Center for Disease Control in responding to COVID-19?
Culture
African political techno
The evolution of techno, from within Detroit’s African-American community to Kampala, Uganda.
Du Bois in Berlin
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent (2014) argues that W. E. B. Du Bois’s two years as a graduate student in Berlin vitally informed his views on race and politics.
Letters of resistance
An anthology series, Women Writing Africa, restores women’s writing to the public archive.
The Blitzboks in America
What the recent World Rugby Sevens Series global championship reveals about national rugby cultures, particularly South Africa’s.
The untold story of the making of South Africa
The quest to understand the real cost of gold in our lives and the fate of those trapped in the mining economy’s cage.
Politics
Can we end the chocolate industry’s labor abuses?
A new effort to block chocolate imports from Cote d’Ivoire to the US brings attention to cocoa’s problematic supply chain.
Who is Israel in Africa?
A new book explores the rationale of Israel’s efforts to expand its influence on the African continent.
Fear and loathing in the time of COVID-19
Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.
From cholera to corona: The politics of plagues in Africa
What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?
My generation is fighting to keep Africa green
Why we need to make climate action our daily duty.
Football is a Country
What the recent World Rugby Sevens Series global championship reveals about national rugby cultures, particularly South Africa’s.