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
Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing
Approval of the River Club development in Cape Town is reminiscent of those bulldozing spatial planners of apartheid
In this extract from The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, the protagonist, Phila, makes a fiery courtroom speech
COMMENT: As the US and China battle for global domination, Africa must stand firm, charting its own course
The protests that have taken place in the United States confront the racialised edifice that built the modern world
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
These schools, to varying degrees, have an intense attachment to the values of authority and obedience — it is an attachment which numbs critical thought
Although Africans must continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement, there is also the need for them to raise their voices against injustices in other African countries
Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
A frontier dispute between the two Asian giants turned deadly for the first time in 45 years. Observers argue the skirmish was exacerbated by Delhi’s annexation of Kashmir and Ladakh
Africans can lead the charge to decolonise the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritised access to the Covid-19 vaccine
White supremacy must be held to account if systemic anti-blackness is to be rooted out of society
Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa
This week, the Black People’s National Crisis Committee (BPNCC) said it would intensify protest if activists are not listened to.
Kenya has a long history of policing with excessive force, often resulting in unnecessary deaths. Recently at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Douglas Kivoi, an expert on police reform and policy, to shed light on the situation. […]