Rastafari and His Imperial Majesty
It's understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.
Politics
Criminal Media
South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.
Zimbabwe’s Forgotten 20%
Zimbabwe makes a good story for western writers and readers. The staggering racism of the Rhodesian
Elections and Ethnicity in Guinea
There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there's an election he exploits ethnic divisions.
“Exceptional kaffirs”
The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.
Fok Your Hood
Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.
Nelson Mandela To Be Renamed
The move comes in light of recent confusion over who owns Mandela’s legacy.
A Century of Land Dispossession in South Africa
Interview with Ben Cousins, founder of PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, and who has researched land reform since 1989.
Immigrant, noun.
Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.
The South African Compromise
How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?
Morgan Tsvangirai and Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe
To understand why Tsvangirai's MDC can't win in Zimbabwe, it is helpful to move beyond the standard analysis of systemic electoral corruption and an unfair vote.
The Love Affair between Nigerians and Arsenal
The love affair between Nigerians and Arsenal is an enduring one. Other English teams are also
The magical disposition
Township "Living," white people and the limits of "empathy"
These are the days
These are the days when corporate America can tell U.S. workers to stop complaining. They too would be part of the 1% if only they lived in Haiti, or Kenya or Uganda.
Press Freedom in Liberia
Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they're doing him proud.
Israel’s Uganda Plan
Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.
Will the UK ever give up on its racist immigration policy?
There have been lots of stories in the British press recently related to immigration, and these
Violence against children doesn’t take place in a vacuum
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
Tuesday morning quarterbacking*
The meaningless football tournaments of the summer–mostly to the benefit of sponsors–are thankfully now over. Club
Escaping categorization
Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.