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China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.
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China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.


It’s unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can’t get enough of it.


“Miners Shot Down,” by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

White South Africans come together to vote as a bloc for only two political parties: the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans moved to Ghana and redefined their relationships to citizenship in the U.S. and their African identities.

Does the graphic novel, ‘Aya of Yop City’, retain its texture in its transformation to the screen?

In Ethiopia the façade of legalism has become an indispensable gloss on political repression.

A short profile of the music scene in Cape Town is dominated by white shows – with a lot of electrocentric music and flashy strobe lights.

Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone’s been in on the act.

The novelist and Nobel Prize winner on why he avoids social media entirely, saying he doesn’t tweet, blog, or engage with what he calls today’s increasingly promiscuous digital platforms.



Brazilians may have produced the first ever afrobeat.

South Africa’s media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.