• Sonja Sugira

Researchers find Europeans and Asians share 1% to 4% of their nuclear DNA with Neandertals. But Africans do not. What to do with this information?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Coca-Cola’s ad trivializes Cameroon’s 1990 World Cup breakthrough, ignoring its transformative global impact.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. — whom I first met in 1995 and often joke is “always right” — on what political economy means for cultural studies.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The contrast between Argentina, where military officials from the dictatorship are still jailed for crimes, while in South Africa apartheid's leaders received amnesty, pensions, and privilege.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's little depth in Tyler Perry’s films or characters, and he may not serve Black community, but his financial success and large Black working-class following is undeniable.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A new website, "Islam in Africa," claims to be a scholarly. On closer inspection, it turns out to be run of the mill Zionist propaganda.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The 1884 and 1885 meetings in Berlin of Euro-American powers to divide up the riches and territories of Africa are being reprised. By and for celebrities.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Julius Malema is equally a creation of the ANC and the South Africa's media. He is, however, the ANC's responsibility. How long it will take before ANC leaders kick him out?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The result may be a foregone conclusion, but it hasn't stop young Sudanese, via the Girifna Movement, working to get the vote out using music.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.

• Caitlin L Chandler

Is the New York Times' correspondent in East Africa, a journalist or just someone relaying stereotypes?

• Caitlin L Chandler

A true competitive selection process may have turn up the best possible candidate as head of UNICEF and not power politics.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Poor whites don't even make up 5% of the poor. Contrast that to more than 60% of blacks. But that's not a story for foreign media.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Winter Olympics features a Russian skaters who dress in animal skin costumes to perform to an "Aboriginal Song." There's more.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

At minimum, VICE's work demonstrates there are stories to tell about Africa that can reach an audience beyond public television.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.