How not to write about Africa: Use “African Spring”
The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It's ahistorical.
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The Right to Grow Old: Photos of the Central American Migrant Crisis
Central American migration, and especially the migration of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Football between above and below
In "Futebol Nation," British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.
Belgium’s blackface problem
Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.
Mexico’s deadly virus
The United States lives in a state of constant fear. Currently, Ebola is to blame. The
Bienvenidos a América Latina es un país
Latin America is a Country is the newest member of the Africa is a Country family. The section is coedited by Pablo Medina Uribe and Camila Osorio.
#MyDressMyChoice
In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.
Tis the blackface season in the Netherlands
Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.
How To Use a Sjambok
This and other lessons from the South African front lines.
Has the giant fallen?
The split within South Africa's largest trade union federation, COSATU.
Willy Sagnol’s Race Problem
If you tell a lie enough times then people will start believing it as gospel. You
The key figures in Colombia’s Picó sound system culture
The sound system, or Picó culture of the Caribbean coast of Colombia is very close to my
The whole ‘Zambia has a white president’ meme
When Zambian President Michael Sata died in London last week after being sick for some time,
How Frelimo rehabilitated Renamo in time for Mozambique’s Elections
An interview with political scientist Domingos Manuel de Rosário, of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, about the October 2014 elections.
Oscar Pistorius and the Judge
South Africa is a divided society with a vile history of injustice. Injustice runs along very
The Politics of Postapartheid Housing
Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.
What next for Burkina Faso?
The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.
Burkina Faso Is on The Boil
And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."
Resources to sustain a movement
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?
Take your madam on a social justice tour
Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.