W E B Du Bois

This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)

Donald Trump’s return to power is a disaster for America, but we should be mindful that South Africa may risk a similar fate

We need to place feminist commitments at the centre of any truly progressive political project

The demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as one of the signs raised to the sky on that July afternoon in 1917: “Give me a chance to live.”