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Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah at LiteretureXchange Festival (2025
Denmark) Photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.

The struggle to reclaim or protect land is fundamentally a struggle to restore human dignity. Photo: Lucky Nxumalo/City Press/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Land and dignity: A global reflection anchored in Palestine

Land is more than a physical resource — it is the foundation of identity, freedom and dignity in places as far-flung as North America, Australia and New Zealand to Gaza, India…

Vusimuzi Madonsela, South African Ambassador to the Netherlands, and then Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, prepare to attend a hearing on January 11 and 12 2024 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

Gaza: South Africa must urgently return to the International Court of Justice

As humanitarian needs soar, provisional measures are needed for the full cessation of hostilities in Gaza.

David Mlondobozi is one of dozens of small farmers in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, who lost land or grazing rights to a huge citrus farming project sponsored by the Motsepe Foundation. (Photos by Bernard Chiguvare)

Farmers fear loss of land to Motsepe Foundation citrus project

The foundation has injected millions into the project and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has also approved millions in funding, but farmers say they…

Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

Have we made progress as a society in terms of women’s rights?

Women’s rights: Insidious discrimination an affront to collective humanity

It is up to actors at all levels of society to rescue institutionalised prejudice that undermines the freedom and dignity of women and girls

A general partial view of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro at sunrise from Kimana Sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers

Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean

Pressures: Standard Bank Group chief executive Sim Tshabalala believes environmental and social governance concerns regarding projects are a priority.  (Freddy Mavunda/Gallo Images/Business Day)

Standard Bank ‘risks its reputation over East African oil pipeline

Standard Bank says it has insisted on good environmental assessments, resettlement plans and fair compensation

Shrinkage: In the past Sudanese pastoralists from the highlands moved to the lowlands during the dry season so that their animals were close to grazing land. But civil war and climate change has resulted in encroachment on cultivated land. Photos: Stefanie Glinski/AFP

Conflict until the cows come home

Climate change and civil war are escalating tensions between South Sudan’s herders and crop farmers, who are competing over land

Africa knows how to take care of its own, in each regard, no matter what

The year of the refugee

The 2019 African Union theme is driven by the need for greater commitment to address the plight of its citizens in forced migration situations

In Central African Republic

‘I was kicked out of our house by his parents’, say widows

If a man dies in the Central African Republic, his wife is at risk of being evicted from their home by his relatives.

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A playlist for ukubuyela amid sites of displacement

The spatial displacement of black people extends itself into the spiritual.