Finance, not guns, plays a huge part in Britain continuing to fly the Union Jack over Africa and other parts of the world
South Africa is correct and courageous to oppose the West at the International Court of Justice but is not a consistently principled actor
At the core of the Sahel coups is the removal of governments and leaders either historically not in support of the US/France or moving away from external domination
The leadership needs to be courageous and committed to the transformation of higher education
Africans have been decolonising, critiquing, and also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times
Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path
That we live in a world where the far right has become normalised should ring alarm bells
Capital markets are no longer falling over themselves to fund our electricity generation, but South Africa’s leaders should have acted with urgency years ago
The late British monarch played a low-key role in helping to keep the commonwealth together through many disputes about race
The principles of pacifism, justice and international cooperation could help rebalance the scales of global politics away from racist wars and toward a peaceful future
Having Black teachers in the classrooms of what are commonly still considered ‘white schools’ would not only be beneficial to Black learners, but to learners of all races
However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture
Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article
‘We will engage in a rugged struggle to ensure that all those who are implicated in the State Capture report are brought to book’
Can policing hair relate to community and equality, or is it solely a function of colonial militarism?
How much more time does the ANC have before losing the country? It’s the question of the next decade, or for the next two years, as the 2024 general election looms.
Despite our dalliances with the “end of the world” narratives, we are still here.
When the ANC introduced the Amendment Bill, it must have been apparent it would lose, having failed to secure an agreement with any other party beforehand
The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future
At the inaugural AU-Caribbean Community summit, leaders called for greater solidarity to prevent global exclusion
The R4.6-billion project, set to house Amazon’s new African headquarters, is on ‘sacred floodplain’, say applicants
Once we have borne the brunt of what has happened to us, we must decide to begin again and change ourselves
David Diop won the prestigious annual International Booker prize for translated fiction for his second novel, ‘At Night All Blood is Black’
In a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi takes a look at the colonial conquests that drove us here
As Freedom Day approaches, an American reflects on how our history has become his too
Flora Veit-Wild’s memoir provides a disquieting look into the author’s relationship with Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera
The royals and Britons have benefited from living in a country built on empire, trade and slavery.
In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900
This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection
Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multimillion-dollar, globe-spanning underground industry — and once again, Nigeria is losing out
The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home
Senekal shows us that we must make a stand against the loud voice of the populist EFF and racist rightwingers