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“Who is the President of the United States of America?”  Side-splitting Nigerian comedy skit.

* The French clothing label, Africa is the Future. Including old man Melvin Van Peebles representing.

* Damon Galgut’s new novel, “In A Strange Land,” reviewed in The Guardian.  (Galgut’s made The Booker shortlist).

* There’s money to be made from gay weddings in South Africa. No surprises that is all about who can get married. It’s all about class and color. [The New York Times]

* If you’re in Cape Town, South Africa, next month diarize the annual Pan African Space Station music festival (September 12-October 12). Detroit dj Theo Parrish is scheduled to make an appearance. Good move.

* An excerpt from Andie Miller’s new book about walking in South Africa. In Hillbrow in inner city Johannesburg. Of course there’s nothing special about walking for the majority of South Africans (working class, mainly black, people), but everyone should be doing it. [EDIT: From Andie Miller: “A small correction–though I’ve just launched my collection of 34 ‘stories about walking,’ the Hillbrow piece isn’t an extract from the book … it’s just a review of the Goethe Institute’s X Homes project which was on a few weeks ago during the World Cup.]

Further Reading

After the coups

Without institutional foundations or credible partners, the Alliance of Sahelian States risks becoming the latest failed experiment in regional integration.

Whose game is remembered?

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.

Sovereignty or supremacy?

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.