#ZimbabweLitMonth: Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories is Andrew Chatora's debut short story collection which is forthcoming in February...
The PAP’s failure to elect a president for over a year further undermined its already doubtful legitimacy.
Jacob Zuma recently advised South Africans that they must not "think like Africans", adding that Gauteng’s highways are "not some national road in Malawi". Does Zuma...
You will, by now, have read one article or another about the French intervention in northern Mali, the general gist of which is that Islamic extremists...
African photography is on the rise. From street to art photography, conceptual and documentary to fashion shoots, home-grown photographers are increasingly showing the world what they...
The recently published critique by Sandile Memela, “The Coca-Colonisation of African Culture,” was mired in alarmist histrionics, showed little consideration for history and just waved a...
There seems to be a general consensus amongst Africans that while it is acceptable to compare countries on the continent with one another (and occasionally group...
A to Z list of what we cannot simply blame on apartheid, what we would not have expected of a government that claims to be committed...
A to Z list of what we cannot simply blame on apartheid, what we would not have expected of a government that claims to be committed...
Skin-lightening/bleaching is a problem, but it's only a sign of much deeper inter-related issues: self-hatred, a race-based identity crisis, and the internalisation of Western-created cultural ideas...
African recording artists have as much right as anyone to borrow influences from anywhere in the world, but when we celebrate those who have succumbed to...
You ain’t down if you ain’t got the twerk. But why do white girls win cred for twerking while black girls get called “ghetto”, among other...
