Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful…
There is no evidence that the Mozambican state committed abuses in Afungi
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Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo vetoed TotalEnergies as a sponsor for the Olympics
Athletes are packing their trainers to explore foreign cities
It’s still shallow and unrealistic, and the acting is not the best, but the show makes for great vacuous escapism
As a new film attempts to explain the events of the 2019 blaze that damaged parts of Notre Dame, Bongeka Gumede looks into the building’s history
But the funding will come at a price, given that the $8.5-bn pledged last year, was mostly in the form of loans
Education is key to giving our children a chance to navigate, and thrive in, a complex modernity
New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation
Breeze Yoko’s poster for Denderah Rising finds new life as the cover for Georgia Anne Muldrow’s VWETO III
Far from rendering major cities obsolete, the pandemic forced the mayor of Paris to quickly implement pedestrianisation as an urban design innovation. With thoughtful planning,…
Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence
The foreign minister’s visits to Mali, Senegal and Niger leverage colonial-era hurts to pave the way for Turkey’s investment in francophone Africa
A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global…
A drone-like, fully-electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (VTOL) dubbed VoloCity, produced by German company Volocopter, was chosen for the innovative trial with flying…
Social distancing and face masks were largely forgotten as thousands of French people danced and partied well into Monday in the first big blow out since the coronavirus lockdown
Itinerant DJ and artist Mo Laudi works hard to ensure the continent’s sounds secure their rightful recognition
Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival
