In purely material terms, Africa is important to the U.S. because of its natural resources and its bright, entrepreneurial ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

Leprosy, long believed to have been introduced to the Americas by Europeans, has a more complex history. A recent study ...

Remembering Ngugi reminds us of universities’ past ideals—and asks if they can once again inspire rebels, dreamers, and ...

A new book taking deep dive into South Africa's correctional system and how it could be improved was launched in Johannesburg this week. South Africa has the largest prison population in Africa, and ...

African economies remain precarious and weak. Most African countries thrive on the primary sector, with raw products and produce from agriculture and ...

Companies must be held accountable for their depredations before the next scramble for the continent under the guise of a ...

Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those ...

The noise around Malema’s ‘genocidal’ chant drowns out the real issue: unhealed colonial trauma and economic injustice.

Four years after its launch, the Just Energy Transition Partnership faces serious scrutiny. As South Africa grapples with its ...

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.