Immune to Bullshit
The second in a series of four posts to commemorate James Baldwin's 90th birthday.
Culture
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
The music that changed my life
The Cape Town suburb of Observatory is known for being a small bohemian enclave, providing low
Not the Country We’re Sitting in Now
The first in a series of four posts to commemorate what would have been James Baldwin's 90th birthday.
Not just some passing foreign journalist
Lawyer and writer Elnathan John interviewed U.S. photographer Glenna Gordon. Listen.
It’s Time to Stop Laughing
In neoliberal global capitalism, anything can be monetized, even the criminal exploits of a marginal schizophrenic.
The Dangers of a Single Book Cover
The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.
Hip hop and electoral politics
South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country's 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?
Jeremy Clarkson’s long history of escaping accountability
Cancel Jeremy Clarkson, cancel Top Gear and cancel British jingoism.
In Search of Freedom
Belgian-Congolese filmmaker, Nganji Laeh, along with musician and composer Badi and filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba, explore present day DRC via film.
Tumi Molekane’s New Song
With no Volume to his name, it seemed almost impossible to imagine South Africa-based self-proclaimed poet/emcee
Why is there a Colombian film festival in South Africa
A group of Colombian artists who live in South Africa on "the incredible amount of similarities between Colombia and South Africa"
To discover Stuart Hall
Hall was a skilled storyteller, who placed his memory, his deep sense of alienation, and his autobiography at the heart of his theory and politics.
The art of Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor’s images always work as a proliferation of forms. It’s the sort of proliferation that
Meleko Mokgosi’s monumental installations
The paintings in Meleko Mokgosi's ongoing "Pax Kaffraria" series interrogate colonialism, politics, power, and identity in Botswana and Southern Africa
The African Hip-Hop Generation Arrives
Frantz Fanon once said: “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
Rwanda and the New York Times
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
‘Township’ is a Planet for Aliens
If you only visit South African townships to confirm your prejudices and not to experience them the way they are, stay away.
Lupita Nyong’o and the Mexicans
The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?
Latin America is a country
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted to counter the notion that everything in Latin America can be understood only through Euro-American lenses.