
Pan-African Twerking
That South Africa has a “Pro Twerk Team” may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.
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That South Africa has a “Pro Twerk Team” may seem like a great opportunity to see twerking from a new, non-American perspective. Or to throw shade.

Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.

Germany’s a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.

After weeks of promising you a new design, we’re back with a brand-new and improved blog. This is a big day for us.

We’re updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.

Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s new film “Grigris” and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir, among others.

Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.

The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country’s other indigenous languages for use in higher education.


As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country’s present.

Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.

The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.

A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what “liberated, spoiled, but also insecure” Western women can learn from their African counterparts.

Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president’s son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?

A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.

When a member of the UK’s House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she’d organized Lumumba’s abduction and murder.