The politics of conversion in northern Nigeria
Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone’s been in on the act.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Kickin’ It With Christian Tiger School
I arrive in Braamfontein twenty minutes early, at 6pm, for a meeting with Sebastiano Zenasi (or
Wole Soyinka has opinions about social media
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.
Heathrow Airport maps the world, and it still belongs to Britain
I was sitting in the tube recently and browsing through one of those free morning papers that
Toto’s Africa–The Disco Edition
Came across this nice little disco edit of Toto's "Africa." Since we have a running series
Afrobeat, Brazilian Style
Brazilians may have produced the first ever afrobeat.
Don’t believe the hype
South Africa’s media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.
The perfect wall to paint
The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.
How much has really changed on South Africa’s wine farms?
Workers in the Western Cape’s wine district describe a place where bosses engage in a reign of force and aggression, and where workers are “afraid to die too soon.”
Why Is No One Else Talking About These Musicians?
I got the chance to be part of the Redbull Basscamp in Johannesburg during October 2013.
The Art of Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke, who passed away on April 13, 2014, was an elder statesman of South Africa’s arts community.
Jihad in Nigeria
Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.
Rap Battle of the Week on Reddit: Johannesburg’s Tumi vs Atlanta’s Ness Lee
Two weeks ago, Club Zen in downtown Johannesburg got packed to its rafters with hip-hop afficionados
Nigeria’s Catch 22
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
Nollywood in Paris
For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like ‘Phone Swap,’ ‘Tango with Me,’ ‘Last Flight to Abuja’ and ‘Maami,’ is an eye-opener.
Street Life in an African City: Oxford Street in Accra
The evidence of material on African cities does not inspire confidence. They are increasingly overcrowded with
Thinking About Genocide
An extract from Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal study, ‘When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda.”
Immune to Bullshit
The second in a series of four posts to commemorate James Baldwin’s 90th birthday.
News of an Engagement
Why you’ve got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya’s marriage to her girlfriend
Good neighbors in Johannesburg
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.