Under Apartheid, categories such as ‘Coloured’ and ‘Indian’ were used as tools of anti-blackness.
06/12/2018
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Win free tickets for an amazing performance in honour of Nelson Mandela.
06/12/2018
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A recent exhibition of struggle t-shirts in Johannesburg illustrates how the simple crew neck is a personal marker of the political past and present.
06/12/2018
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Meet Adam Belarouchia, current resident at the Thami Mnyele Studio in Amsterdam. This young artist from Morocco has received awards since his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan.
06/12/2018
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Building a world beyond them and us
23/10/2018
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Saleh Addonia | Zij is een vreemd land, voorpublicatie
Chronicle #38 /Terras, een tijdschrift voor internationale literatuur, presenteert deze week een bijzondere editie met verhalen van Afrikaanse auteurs. (Note: excerpt in English with the article).
22/11/2018
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We need to talk about coffee
Arena /We want to talk about coffee. The reason for this is the Coffee Barometer 2018’s shocking conclusion that Fairtrade does not give farmers an extra penny.
27/11/2018
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Stuart Tibaweswa, winner of the 2017 Young Photography Award (YPA), and Anna Kućma, director of the Uganda Press Photo Award, talk about the contest, a free gazette, fake news, and a yearlong coverage of the country’s prime TV network.
22/11/2018
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Africa in science fiction at the Aké Arts and Book Festival in Lagos (Nigeria)
22/11/2018
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The walls of kleptocracy are cracking under the force of stories and revelations. With a new pan-African alliance the changemakers’ movement enters a new stage.
08/11/2018
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South Africa | Why only a Nissan?
Chronicle #38 /Essay – In the late 1990s, Kiza Magendane and his uncle left their native country of Congo to start a new life elsewhere. Kiza ended up in the Netherlands, his uncle in South Africa. Nineteen years later they meet in Pretoria. 'Kiza, the South African dream does not exist.'
08/11/2018
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Alex Esagala, Brian Otono and Jibril Kwizera are the recipients of this year’s Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA).
23/10/2018
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Where’s that brandy, folks, let us drink!
Chronicle #38 /Last week former Apartheid Minister Pik Botha died. He was a genius in many ways.
23/10/2018
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At 80, the late Nigerian musician must be celebrated for his revolutionary message of empowerment.
23/10/2018
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With the upcoming exhibition, Kewpie’s life, a hairdresser by day and a performer drag queen by night, will be celebrated.
13/09/2018
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The winner of the 2018 Principal Prince Claus Award transfers hairdressers, immigrants and ‘bornfrees’ from Johannesburg to Lagos Photo.
08/11/2018
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French President Emmanuel Macron recently took his first trip under his official position to Nigeria, a move that Quartz labelled as “low on policy, but high on culture.”
31/07/2018
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The UK’s Autograph Gallery hosts Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop first solo exhibition recasting history and the global politics of black resistance.
31/07/2018
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There were no cribs, no bitches, expensive Nikes or flashy wheels in his lyrics, Re Fuse magazine reports.
19/07/2018
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Nigeria | Internet scamming. The Yahoo Boys Universe
Chronicle #37 /Olivia Ndubuisi infiltrated one of the notorious ‘419 scams’ industry’s headquarters.
31/07/2018
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South Africa | The man who connected the dots
Chronicle #37 /Activist Minister Pravin Gordhan, back in government, fights to bring South Africa back from the brink. Change has come but 'the contest is still on.'
28/08/2018
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The body is me. Three photographers focus the lens on itself as a window on the world.
23/10/2018
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‘How Not To Ask A Question'
Chronicle #36 /Why do young Nigerians ask president Macron for advice?
19/07/2018
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Back to Ventersdorp
Uncle Tom /An early nineties whites-only pub in Ventersdorp, South Africa, a recent meeting of the neighbourhood watch in Pretoria, a conference of the Young Liberals in the Netherlands. What’s the difference?
02/10/2018
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The Contrarian
That's just not right
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- The Rainbow Myth | Nomalanga Mkhize
- Taking sex workers off the streets won't help fight HIV | Dianne Massawe
- "It’s not poverty that is to blame for the weak African responses to Ebola, but bad leadership" | Professor Oyewale Tomori
- Cyril Ramaphosa "not solely to blame for Marikana massacre" | Steven Friedman
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