The Myth of the New South Africa
In South Africa, the old is alive and well and surging alongside everything that is trying to be new.
Politics
Does the Development Industry really need new clothes?
One critical problem of the new combined agenda of agencies like the UN or World Bank is that their goals lack a clear rationale on what they'll accomplish and how.
What are you scared about, Joseph Kabila
Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Britain’s Racist Election
In Britain in 2015, racism is being used to dismantle the consensus on the welfare state, and to undo the greatest achievement of British democracy.
Invisible labor in plain sight
South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.
The wounded buffalo
President Filipe Nyusi's government will be more remembered for preventing protests by an increasingly disenfranchised Mozambican public.
White settler states and secret police forces
How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.
Eu Sou Cistac
What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.
The heart of whiteness, South African edition
We don't think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.
In the Name of Africa
For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.
Obroni, a History
Most Ghanaians think "obroni" means "white person" or "foreigner", but it stems from the Akan phrase "abro nipa" meaning "wicked person."
President Obiang and the Samba School
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker: Tunde Kelani
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
Can Malawi cope with another severe flood?
The floods that have devastated much of the southern region of Malawi represent one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history.
The imagination of the United Nations
Why aren’t Africans living on the continent part of the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent?