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Lights Out In South Africa What's Behind South Africa's Energy Crisis?

Hillary EssienFebruary 19, 2023

On 14 February, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would appoint a minister of electricity as the country's blackouts continue worsening and threatening the economy.

February/March 2023NewsSouth Africa

This photo is for Andile Zulu's Black Atlantic Essay

On Being Black and Other Lies Unravelling My Blackness in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Andile ZuluDecember 22, 2021

I had always been anxious about returning to South Africa. Besides awkward puberty, an awakening awaited me in South Africa, sparked by a dizzying confrontation with the reality of race. Read more.

December 20/January 21South AfricaThe Black Atlantic

Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary

Chioma EchebiriNovember 22, 2021

Seretse Khama made an usual mark in the arena of politics in southern Africa, but his role in Botswana’s road to independence is unheralded history. Read more.

BotswanaOctober/November 2021South Africa

Lessons of Discord The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism

Brooks MarmonNovember 11, 2021

Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more.

AngolaGhanaOctober/November 2020South AfricaZimbabwe

What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa

Boetumelo Julianne NyasuluOctober 25, 2021

Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more.

October/November 2021South AfricaZimbabwe

The Revolution Is a Song! Music in Africa’s Liberation and Freedom Struggles

Karsten NokoOctober 13, 2021

In their contributions to local African resistance, musicians today such as Uganda’s Bobi Wine, who face increasingly autocratic governments, draw from the legacies of older artists such as Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. Read more.

NigeriaOctober/November 2021South AfricaZimbabwe

Genesis of a Revolutionary Robert Mugabe’s Political Formation

Brooks MarmonSeptember 8, 2021

Robert Mugabe, the dictator who ruled Zimbabwe for more than three decades, had revolutionary beginnings. He was shaped by a tumultuous brew of pan-African nationalism, associated authoritarianism, and his own startling yet grossly under-discussed political rise. Read more.

August/September 2021South Africavol5-no3Zimbabwe

Gender, Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism The Anti-Colonial Legacies of African Women

Nnenna Ifeanyi-AjufoSeptember 8, 2021

That women’s participation in anti-colonial and nationalist struggles may not be as obvious in existing literature does not mean such participation was peripheral. Read more.

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