Julius Malema’s next move
In South Africa, many youth votes are up for grabs for the first time, from the generation facing 70% unemployment and with little loyalty to the ANC of their parents.
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At the Protests for Trayvon Martin
The focus should be on white people. Why have so many of us chosen not to demonstrate?
A Season in the Congo
A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.
How to be a man
The simple fact that all forms of violence in South Africa have a male face tells us there’s something fundamentally wrong with ideas around manhood there.
The Unruly Rush of the City
Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.
Nigeria’s drama filled history
The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.
Return from the Promised Land
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
Weekend Music Break 45
We took the week off last week so we’re coming back at you extra strong today.
How not to study sexualized violence in the DRC
Excerpt from a post Maria Hengeveld wrote over at Dan Moshenberg’s work blog Women In and
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.
Have some sympathy for the poor suffering bosses
Miners at multinational Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa, speaking to (South African)
Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.