A new television series looks at the life and death of Emmet Till in the 1950s and the bravery of his mother
The talented novelist Nthikeng Mohlele’s debut short-story collection lacks the vitality that makes short stories magical
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
Born in Zambia and raised in Botswana, the songwriter’s career is coming into full bloom in South Africa
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s response to Waiting for Godot is a crystal-clear directive: stop killing us
The collaborative album Indaba Is, facilitated by Siyabonga Mthembu and Thandi Ntuli, is greater than the sum of its parts
The aid worker allegedly called his security guard a ‘slave’
Musicians break genre boundaries and, through the lyrics about the Los Angeles police officer who killed cops, express black anger
In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.
How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa…
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter
Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it
Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice
The final part of Zamansele Nsele’s interview with Frank B Wilderson expands on some of the thinking in his latest book, ‘Afropessimism’
The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation
We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start
Responses to terrible inequality, climate change and the Covid-19 economic crisis will decide this
Frank B Wilderson discusses ‘Afropessimism’, his memoir that analyses structural violence
In this memoir, the first Somali-American woman elected to the US Congress describes how she got there
Dynamic grassroots movements are especially needed in authoritarian states where institutions are fundamentally broken
