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. […]
Without an accurate understanding of the dilemmas which overwhelm us, our efforts to produce effective and far-reaching strategies or solutions for change will fail
Nelson Mandela University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are collaborating to realise Madiba’s dream of building a new society
Renewable energy funding from the North must take local ownership and participation seriously
The guitarist is growing into his groove, with a new concept album launching soon
Fortunately for us, survival is in our DNA. Let’s use that to greet worldwide crises
Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts
The unstable pathway many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements
How else can we view the breathless coverage that has shadowed the royals since they arrived in Cape Town?
Politicians must desist from blaming the actions of the former oppressor for their own decisions
The world should be wary of creeping autocratisation, even in democratic countries
By labelling China as a colonial threat, Zambian historian Sishuwa Sishuwa is helping its enemies
A documentary film takes Fanon’s ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today’s young across the globe
Two academic articles raise questions about the inherent racism and sexism in scientific methodologies and research ethics
Given the inherent benefits all white people enjoy, they have an obligation to actively tackle injustice
The justification of the refusal to repatriate artworks and artefacts to their homelands constitute the old practice of infantilising African nations
No matter the future for the Steyn statue, the university’s process has already reaped rewards
One of South Africa’s oldest nations is fighting for recognition of its king, language and ancestral land
Section 377 of the Indian penal code, enacted by British rulers in 1861, banned ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’
‘Class, in other words, is much more than just one aspect of the social complex,’ writes one of our readers
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life
The dangerous re-ethnicisation of SA politics must be stopped lest it lead to the same ethnonationalism that caused bloodshed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia
The DA in the Western Cape says it is not within the jurisdiction of the provincial legislature to deal with the matter
In 2017, Zille tweeted that colonialism was not “only negative” and went on to tweet how colonialism had, in her opinion, benefited South Africa
A Cape Town researcher believes the city should return to Table Mountain and the Camissa water system in its quest to resolve its current problems
If Zille is charged, it will be the second time in a year that she will be investigated for violating the DA’s social media policy
Colonialism and apartheid were all-encompassing systems, involving institutions, professions and the public and private sectors.
The facts not in dispute are that Cecil John Rhodes was an “arch-imperialist and white supremacist who treated people of this region as sub-human"
An academic article asserting the benefits of colonialism caused an outcry and resulted in calls for its removal