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Five foreign nationals have already been brutally murdered by South Africans in a recent spate of xenophobic violence. Undeniably, there are many reasons this has happened,...
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This is Africa

Kim Harrisberg

Stories By Kim Harrisberg

South Africa: We should be burning vitriol not people

A human face in South Sudan

The silence that dictatorship taught us

Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power

Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what has taken its place?

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Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them

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Five things you should know about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time

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“Les Sapeurs”, Black Dandyism and the genesis of gender fluid African fashion

Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world

Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

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Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation

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Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders – why free trade is a major talking point

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