Tim Hetherington 1970-2011

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.

Madonna chooses Malawi

• Kim Yi Dionne

Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that’s where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?

Tendai Biti at Columbia University

• Elliot Ross

One of the leaders of Zimbabwe’s opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.

His father named him for Duke Ellington

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Late jazz musician Duke Ngcukana, has been described as “a trumpet player extraordinaire,” and “a fine person.”

Oliver Hermanus at Cannes

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Miss Liberia

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Street Party, Johannesburg

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'Brown Baby'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'The Journey'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In The Name of Malawi

• Sean Henry Jacobs

'Write on Africa'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Coloureds Comics

• Tom Devriendt

We sent 5 questions to South African comic (or graphic) artists Nathan and Andre Trantraal, known collectively as the Trantraal Brothers.

'Insurrection'

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We are all Andries Tatane

• An Anonymous Reader

We shouldn’t be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.

Billy Bang

• Siddhartha Mitter

Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.

Return to the Motherland

• Sean Henry Jacobs

From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.