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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Spinning in Gauteng
Mandela's heirs

The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town’s Cape Flats.

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
Weekend Special, July 17
Ken's Song

White Wedding

Pretty in Pink
One in ten young people on Cape Town’s Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career – and sometime their lives – is prom, known as the matric ball.

Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa’s second city, Cape Town.
Africa is a Country

When Malcolm X went to Africa
“As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.”

Naija, London

Music Break

It is the time for summer lists
A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.