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.
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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.
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.
Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
White Dictators
Here's a list of white dictators, including real world ones, who were either African or operated on the continent.
Blackface Fish
Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?
Benefit Packages
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.