One week ago, one hundred and forty seven/147 young adults met their death at the hands of terrorists in Garissa, Kenya. The number, whether alphabetically or numerically written out, holds no value. It is so arbitrary and trivial, yet it is what most media headlines were fixated on. As the hours went by and the […]
Not even the Venezuelan opposition supported Obama’s action.
Is there a place where white people are more committed to faux race blindness than South Africa?
"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.
In the last two weeks, students belonging to the #RhodesMustFall collective have rechristened and remade of one of University of Cape Town’s key administrative building as ‘Azania House.’ They have been occupying the building since March 20and it has become a nodal point for the student led collective. At the end of one of the […]
Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.
"I want to go to a place ... where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963."--Binyavanga Wainaina.
The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.
For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.
Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.
In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
The catastrophic consequences of Mexico’s militarized war on drugs, despite all the breezy media coverage.
Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.
Why do Western media outlets still fantasize that Apartheid's foot soldiers will be the ones to stop Boko Haram?
J.M. Coetzee wondered in the late 1980s what price white South Africans are willing to pay for fraternity with Black South Africans.
The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.
The agency was the "most dedicated and influential critic" of black writers, with agents writing detailed analyses of authors they were spying on.
By studying the actions of his British South Africa Company (BSAC) in present day Zambia, starting about 1890, the answer is an emphatic: No.
One of the most scandalous statistics at the University of Cape Town: only 3% of academic staff are black, and only two full professors are black in the faculty of Humanities.