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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.

The “many mistakes” of the white Afrikaner past
Public history about Afrikaners in South Africa is disingenous and predictabiy don’t want to deal with history.

African Footballers in America
The US Major Soccer League is luring foreign players, especially decent African players, and not just those whose careers are on the wane.

Shameless Self-Promotion: Chief Boima at The Apollo

The Western Journalist in Africa
The question for Western journalists is this – when it comes to Africa, why do you not tell the whole story of the humanity at work even in times of extreme violence?
Zimbabwean Activist Jestina Mukoko ‘Released’

The Next President
Thierry Michell’s portrait of Congolese businessman-governor-football club owner Moïse Katumbi is among a few new films at the Belgian Afrika Film Festival.

The media caricature of Hugo Chávez
A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.

Dirk Coetzee is Dead
The legacies of Apartheid’s death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
Weedie Braimah and Amadou Kouyate’s Blends

The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.

Rap Comes Home

Counting bodies and column inches
The Pistorius’ murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.

Marcus Garvey’s Africa
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey’s influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.

Conveying raw feelings about everyday activities
The Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki, picks her five favorite photographs and shares some words about how and where the images were made.
Kenya is More than its Election

Searching for Redemption
In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Rodriguez the man feels more like an awkward prop in a story of white redemption rather than the star of his own movie.

Swag, Swag, #Swag

Have a Nice Trip
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.

Vice and Albinos in Tanzania
Vice.com’s reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.