This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
Dambudzo Marechera continues to nourish Zimbabweans’ cultural lives — and literary tourists from northern climes
It is misleading to use Nelson Mandela’s name to defend the Cecil John Rhodes statue
A march to the SA High Commission has been organised to demand that government prioritise the fees crisis in higher education.
British students need to turn their attention to the glaring inequalities that persist in society rather than focus on removing old statues.
Former All Black captain Anton Oliver is looking forward to playing in England’s rugby union Varsity Match after being offered a place at Oxford University. Oliver (32) will study for an MSc in biodiversity, environment and management at the famous English seat of learning.
The fate of more English cities, towns and villages hung in the balance on Tuesday as emergency crews built up defences against rising waters during Britain’s worst floods in living memory. The government’s crisis-response committee met late on Monday and again on Tuesday as some rivers topped levels reached during the floods in 1947.