
The balkanization of Nigeria?
For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.

For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.

In neoliberal global capitalism, anything can be monetized, even the criminal exploits of a marginal schizophrenic.

Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.

For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.

Just in time for the weekend, episode 2 of Africa is a Country Radio is here! (It went live first on Groovalizacion last week.) This month’s episode opens with a dedication to Suriname, and ends with an audio accompaniment to Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s blog post: “News from Nigeria.” There’s lot’s of fun stuff in between as well, check […]

Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.

Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.

In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world.

The bottom line of politics in electoral democracies in 21st century capitalism: Whatever patronage politicians dispense, there’s no free lunch.

The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.

I came across this image taken by a press photographer in May 1990 after one of the first public meetings between the last white minority government and the liberation movement (led by the ANC), to negotiate a new political order. This was the ANC delegation to that meeting in Cape Town. The people in the image […]

South Africans vote on May 2nd, 2014, the country's 5th democratic elections. Do rappers vote?