Their parents are being told to ‘let it go’
In pictures: These are the faces of the Caravana 43 for the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico.
Politics
Xenophobia and Border Imperialism
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
When Fatou Diome kicked European Union butt
Writer Fatou Diome: It's the representation that Europe does to the Other that feeds xenophobia.
The beautification of Stellenbosch University
The arrogance of apartheid-denialism at Stellenbosch University.
Why Are Colombian Teachers Protesting Their Government?
Colombian teachers resist neoliberalism's global project in education.
The problem with the word “genocide”
A century ago, Turkish forces slaughtered more than one million Armenian children, women, and men. This weekend, public conversations during the event’s centenary centered around the politics of deploying the “g-word”—genocide–as descriptor. Since World War II, this term has been laden with political obligations regarding international intervention, but categorization of atrocities as genocide may enable post-conflict legal […]
To Africa’s Health
Will the new African Centers for Disease Control really be an African CDC?
Apartheid’s Revenge
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy.
The first genocide of the 20th century
The language, methods, and scale of the Herero genocide remain shocking even in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Kenyan version of the war on terror
Why the wall Kenya is building on its border with Somalia is a terrible idea.
Violent Legacies
How Gang Violence in El Salvador Grew (Helped by the U.S.).
Caravana 43
Resisting against the official version of what happened to the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico in September 2014.
Never becoming fully South African
Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.
Photo of the Day: What value do we place on African lives?
Today for the first time since Mandela was freed, I am ashamed to be a South African. All the years of pride in my birthplace have been replaced with loss and disbelief. The heroes our soil created who believed in freedom and equality regardless of anything else — race, gender, religion, creed and origin — […]
Achille Mbembe writes about Xenophobic South Africa
Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?
G.O.A.T’s
Diego Maradona is arguably the greatest football player of all time. In Eduardo Galeano's prose, he becomes even greater.
The folly of barring pregnant girls from school in Sierra Leone
One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.
This is the sound of Cecil John Rhodes falling
Historic moments get a lot of phone camera coverage these days, but I wondered if radio could better capture the atmosphere at the rally to celebrate the removal of the Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town. As the #RhodesMustFall movement said repeatedly, it’s not just about a statue. So I recorded what people […]
Maboneng is on fire
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
Labor protests in Swaziland: when no news is not good news
To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.