The Airbnb’fication of Cape Town
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?
The predatory tech giant is at the center of a heritage site land grab, pitting indigenous and environmental activists against city authorities.
Faced with many crises, including unemployment and a rising cost of living, Angolans are turning to memes to express their political discontent.
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. The question is whether we align AI to promote human rights or to defend private property and exploitation.
How digital capitalism, despite often being framed as potential growth engine, exploits the already marginalized and reproduces inequalities and power-relations between Africans.
Anyone who cares about civil society, free speech, and human rights should find the state’s digital silencing of its citizens deeply troubling.
Western tech companies in Africa often claim to be "social entrepreneurs." But do their models reduce or contribute to inequality?
Facebook and its “family” of services are a one-way street towards greater integration, data exploitation, and erosions of privacy by an increasingly monopolistic company.
Today's social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.
During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?
The current political conflict, now a civil war, in Ethiopia partly has its roots in disagreement among elites on how to narrativize Ethiopian history.
The coverage of African women in the mainstream media continues to be lacking and often times problematic. The website, African Feminism, wants to change that.
What might the fascination in displaying and seeing the body of “the criminal” tell us about South Africa today?
A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible.
While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.
One African feminist's view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics.