WATCH: South Africa’s post apartheid white slums

20 years after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, the government has shifted policy to attempt to "balance out the scales" from the injustices of...

“If a woman cheats, she should be stoned to death,” says Ghanaian MP

Hanging a woman or stoning her to death for committing adultery are the types of prescriptions one would expect to hear nowadays from places controlled by...

Caine’s legitimacy comes from its work

Remembering Chinua Achebe – an African titan

Today, 84 years ago, a literary giant was born. Chinua Achebe will always be remembered for his colossal contribution to the establishing of modern African literature

We Must Kill God

The God we have been taught to serve is not only alien to us but also harmful, we must kill him and in his stead raise...

Scramble for Africa: Berlin Conference of 1884-85 kicked off

On this day, in 1884, Western countries met to discuss the future of Africa in what is known as the Berlin Conference. The result of the...

“The people in Africa are so simple,” he said

In a Ghana hotel I overheard a western-sounding white male utter the following to a listener on his phone: “The people in Africa are so simple,...

Who cares about elephants?

The African media is saturated with stories of ‘save our wildlife’. Save your ‘Jumbos’. Don’t kill our Big Five! Save your future! I hardly have a...

Of PhDs, Gamatox and Zimbabwean big words

This is Zimbabwe, we have the highest literacy level in Africa and a proclivity for the utilisation of gargantuan articulatory conduits. Why couldn’t he just say...

Recruiting child soldiers on the Cape Flats

Calvin has spent over half of his life in Cape Flats gangs. Today, he is 26 years old and a high-ranking member of both the Mongrels...