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How to deal with sexual violence in South Africa
It is not good enough to teach our sons not to rape. We need to teach our sons that a woman is not some “thing” placed on this planet just to satisfy whatever desire you have.

I want to play at the Voortrekker Monument
Here's what some South African artists make of the country's politics.

Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."

Sinophobia
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.

Capitalizing On a Violent Heritage
The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.

When videos of abuses by police go viral in Angola
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.

The spirit of Ethiopian culture
Roxsanne Dyssell's second in a series of interviews with young artists and creatives: Next: creative director and photoblogger,Metasebia Yoseph

Future Radioheads
The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?

Pop Culture and Pirate Humanity
Barely any group has been as de-humanized as much in recent history as Somali pirates, treated almost like vermin to be rooted out.