Blackface is Okay on Peruvian TV
The shows play on the worst stereotypes associated with Afro-Peruvians and uncritically exhibits these for the whole Peruvian nation to watch.
Politics
In Memory of Anene Booysen
Guest Post by Melinda Fantou The road that leads to Bredasdorp, a small town about 180 km from Cape Town, meanders through barren fields shaved of the wheat they once nursed to maturity. The sheep sidle through protruding stalks, stomaching the lack of greener pastures. The resilient blue gums – the only trees that seem, […]
The Book of Marikana
Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.
There’s “too much Africa in South Africa”
That what a Dutch writer Adriaan Van Dis told an Italian newspaper when asked about what South Africa is like now.
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
Ramphele has never enjoyed widespread grassroots support as a political figure in South Africa and hasn't been in active in any political movement for at least 30 years now.
What’s the matter with Morocco
Morocco appears stable, but high unemployment, economic reforms, increased repression and police brutality, could still impact the country's politics.
In Angola, the generals will be just fine
Beware the bling of banner headlines announcing free speech victories.
The Extreme Makeover of Patri$e Mot$epe
Motsepe was named South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire by Forbes Magazine.
Why is South Africa such a violent society
The heinous, brutal rape and subsequent slaughtering of Anene Booysen in South Africa’s Western Cape province has brought into the open, once again, the miry underbelly of our rainbow nation. At the heart of violence that Anene was subjected to, lies a bigger issue that South Africans wilfully shunt and ignore. This issue is our […]
How to deal with sexual violence in South Africa
It is not good enough to teach our sons not to rape. We need to teach our sons that a woman is not some “thing” placed on this planet just to satisfy whatever desire you have.
I want to play at the Voortrekker Monument
Here's what some South African artists make of the country's politics.
Africa is a Board Game
Players in the board game, "Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa," are cast in the role of colonists, competing to make the largest imprint on Africa's "vast wilderness."
Sinophobia
Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.
When videos of abuses by police go viral in Angola
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.
African Football at The Shrine
Watching the African Nations Cup Final at The Shrine in Harlem.
The problems with MediaStorm’s filmmaking
MediaStorm went to Angola to make a short film about de-mining. Their techniques gave us pause.
Philosophy and dancing outside the European tradition
A couple of weeks ago Hamid Dabashi’s article “Can Non-Europeans Think?” was making the usual hype motions on the web. The New York-based Iranian professor took righteous offense at Santiago Zambala’s list of the “important and active philosophers today,” which failed to name any thinker thinking outside Europe (except for Judith Butler [does New York count as Europe?]), […]
Ghanaian Hip-Hop Lyricist M.anifest Writes for Us: Laments of a Disappointed Ghana Black Stars Fan
Oh Ghana Black Stars! Again? Our time in the trophy-less wilderness just got a 3 year extension yesterday courtesy our neighbors to the north, Burkina Faso. This is how they repay us for supplying them with electricity (I kid).
The Story of a South African Farm
As of March 1 this year, the new base salary for farm workers in South Africa will be R105 a day (about US$11 per day). That’s a 52% pay raise, which sounds impressive until you realize that means currently the base salary is R69 a day (US$7.70 per day). This raise comes after a prolonged, […]
Peter Beinart went to South Africa
Somebody tell Beinart support for Palestinians is not support for Muslims over Jews in the ruling party. It's for an occupied people over a repressive state.