
The Rugby revolution is not being televised
Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.
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Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.

When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.

The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.

When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?

Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.

Recent events reveal the Mnangagwa administration in Zimbabwe will extend, if not intensify, the kleptocracy, corruption and repression of the Mugabe regime.

Former US Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who passed away recently, played a leading role in the global fight against South African Apartheid in the 1980s.

The feature film, ‘Kasala,’ feels like a documentary film about the Nigerian condition and appeals to anyone who has ever been poor.

Manu Dibango has been here for centuries, and he ain’t goin’ away any time soon.

The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.

Everyone but the Chibok girls–subjects of #BringBackOurGirls–and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.

On the eve of Zimbabwe’s elections, it’s worth reflecting on the British government’s expropriation of Southern Rhodesia, and the mark that act left on the country 100 years later.

Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women’s team.

In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.

The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.

A series of photos documenting the contemporary state of the site of perhaps the most decisive battle in the liberation of Southern Africa.

Is France’s World Cup championship team a bellwether for France’s political future?

Free jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo comes home to his childhood home in Cape Town, carrying the spirit of his generation.

Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.

The pace of rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, longtime foes who have been in deadlock for the last 20 years, changes quickly. It is hard to keep up.