On Sunday night, Aminata Touré was named Prime Minister of Senegal. True to Touré’s style, she announced the appointment herself. A new Prime Minister forms a new cabinet. It was thought that Touré would have the cabinet by the end of the week. She had it by Monday evening. That’s how Mimi Touré, as she […]
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.
Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they're doing him proud.
Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.
Weekend Break Number 52 feature, among others, Buika, TV On The Radio, Alex Lomani, Ill Skillz, Tamikrest and Stromae.
From the director and singer-actors of the 2005 film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha comes a new “opera” film. Unogumbe/Noye’s Fludde follows the plot of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde work but moves the action from medieval England to present-day South Africa. Nomads is a musical documentary by Mohamad Hanafi, produced by the Goethe‐Institut’s Sudan Film Factory (also check […]
The subjects, who were mostly black and Indian, were photographed around Durban by Singarum Jeevaruthnam Moodley, aka Kitty (1922-1987).
Jean Suret-Canale changed the face of African history for African activists, students and intellectuals.
The contradictions and tensions in pop legend Michael Jackson's relationship with the African continent.
"We've got Ferraris in Africa. What they gon' say now?", says one of the young people in a new video. Is that the ethics of South Africa's young?
"Top Gear" presents Africa as background to white, English gentlemanly machismo.
There have been lots of stories in the British press recently related to immigration, and these have made it clear that a sentiment still exists that is opposed to the familiar xenophobia with which the topic is usually discussed in the UK.