My favorite photographs N°6: Stanley Lumax
Stanley Lumax (born in New Jersey, US where his parents, Ghanaian immigrants, settled) lives in Brooklyn.
South Africa
The trouble with South Africa’s middle class
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
Zanele Muholi’s “Mo(u)rning” | Exhibition
On Thursday, July 26, the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town had an opening: Mo(u)rning. Photographic
Il Manifesto
Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.
Reading List: Lily Saint
The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she's been reading.
More than one specter haunts South Africa
This week, the World Bank issued a report, South Africa Economic Update: Inequality of Opportunity. The
Madala Kunene for all seasons
Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.
Desmond Tutu, the Patron Saint of Longboard Skateboarders
Shameless self-promotion: “Board Games” is a short documentary video I did for my friend Kent Lingeveldt
The Legacy of Nat Nakasa
Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.
Bathers at Sea Point: Photographs by Antoinette Engel
Antoinette Engel, a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Cape Town (and a friend of this
My delicious ‘Afrigasm’
White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.
Spring revolution or a summer of discontent
Can North Africans define their own futures, away from the inventions of old white men in think tanks in Washington DC?
The rising bitterness of South Africa’s black majority
'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.
Steve Bloom photographs 1970s Cape Town
The London Festival of Photography has opened, and one of its most appealing features is an
Nando’s Grilled Chicken Politics
We asked the Africa Is a Country "office" to comment on Nando's new ad that is supposedly a comment on the widespread antiblack xenophobia in South Africa.
The Safe Location
Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.
Pieter Hugo on ‘political correctness’
Pieter Hugo, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
The New Yorker on violence against lesbians in South Africa
How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?
An ode to Benni McCarthy
Watching a 34 year old Benni McCarthy back in South Africa with Orlando Pirates, leave many observers with a lingering feeling that he could have achieved so much more.
This is not about art
Between the relentless media coverage, the twitter deluge, the pronouncement by a South African judge (“This