Politics
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.
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.
African Football at The Shrine
Watching the African Nations Cup Final at The Shrine in Harlem.
The problems with MediaStorm’s filmmaking
MediaStorm went to Angola to make a short film about de-mining. Their techniques gave us pause.
Peter Beinart went to South Africa
Somebody tell Beinart support for Palestinians is not support for Muslims over Jews in the ruling party. It's for an occupied people over a repressive state.
Ronald Reagan’s Africa
Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.
Stephen Keshi is Pure Gold
Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi's understanding of Nigeria and its football politics may be a template to how think Nigeria out of its political leadership crisis.
A large piece of humble pie
The job of Nigeria's men national team is one of the worst places to be on the planet. So, when the team wins, we all celebrate.
Canada and the cover of whiteness
Canadian immigration - while discouraging Roma from applying for refugee status - welcomes the worst of Apartheid South Africa's perpetrators.
Channel error connection
Watching Morocco defeat South Africa in the 2013 African Cup of Nations from a Moroccan enclave in Astoria in Queens, New York.
To sanitize and trivialize a decade of mayhem
Another book argues Zimbabwe's land reform is a success. But does it adequately deal with the processes by which that “success” was achieved?