The apartheid propaganda playbook must fall
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The notion that history repeats itself is a largely ahistorical trope. However, sometimes a shared ideological
The apartheid propaganda playbook must fall
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The notion that history repeats itself is a largely ahistorical trope. However, sometimes a shared ideological
The falsification of history
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The Indian historian Ramachandra Guha’s Gandhi before India published in 2013 was received with much consternation in South Africa. This
Why South Africa needs Democratic Socialism
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After 25 years in power, one would expect that the African National Congress—the party that brought
South African homophobia goes to parliament
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A bully in my Standard 5 class used to mock me by calling me “sisi bhuti.”
The resilience of culture in the face of change
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I am Atanásio Cosme Nyusi, son of my father, healer without master born on the Makonde plateau where there
The question of our time
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Securing a future and overcoming the eco-cidal logic of capitalism lies in a democratic eco-socialist nation-building project.
Morning Yet on Another Day of Indaba
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Reading Panashe Chigumadzi’s “Why I’m No Longer Talking To Nigerians About Race,” published on Africa is
Nollywood Tackles #MeToo
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In an early sequence in Knock Out Blessing–an immensely entertaining blend of action, comedy, and political critique,–an
The revolution in Darfur
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Writing about the public’s potential to form uncontrollable, non-heirarchal resistance methods, the post-Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, compared the
Singing truth to power
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Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s increasingly authoritarian president of 33 years, would like young Ugandans to stop listening
The Fighters
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The South African national and provincial elections taking place on 8 May 2019, are set to
When Achieng met Ellen
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Achieng Agutu lit up screens on “The Ellen Show” last week. She was wearing a red
Arab literature and the African other
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When I first migrated to the United States, I worked as research assistant to Ali Mazrui,
The ruins of a mining economy
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Around the 23-minute mark in the short film, Uppland, an unidentified voice speaks over a series of
The African Lion
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Ethiopia is going through an economic transformation. Having been the world’s fastest growing economy in the last 15
Living at the margins of urban life in Angola
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For a while now, photos have been circulating on social media—still a viable option for circumventing the official
The energy that never dies
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I first saw Baaba Maal in 1987 when he came to perform in my hometown, Galoya, in northern Senegal.
Renovating the AfricaMuseum
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After five years of renovation that cost over 65 million euros, the infamous AfricaMuseum in Belgium has reopened its doors. Even before
Why I’ll keep talking to Southern Africans about race
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A short while back, the Zimbabwean-South African writer Panashe Chigumadzi wrote on this site that she was no longer talking to
The revolution in four-part harmony
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In the 1970s the legendary American trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie remarked to Hugh Masekela, the South