Africans & #BlackLivesMatter
Activists in both South Africa and Kenya are drawing on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile to highlight the global echoes of their own social justice causes. CAPE […]
Tag Archives: South Africa
5 Hot Dances From Africa That You Should Check Out
I’m a dance enthusiast. I started taking dance classes as a child. I was about six years old when I took my first ballet class. I moved onto liturgical dance. […]
Remembering #IfAfricaWasABar
One of the best hashtags ever! Remember? The hashtag grabbed the attentions of millions of people. I was certainly one of them. It all started in July 2015. […]
White South African Sangoma
Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves to a frantic drum […]
First African Team to Compete in Tour de France
South African cycling team makes history South African team MTN-Qhubeka received one of five wildcard invitations to the 2015 Tour de France, making it the first team from Africa to […]
Africans Need to Stop Listening to the Colonial Voices in their Heads
In Africa’s parliaments, presidential palaces and boardrooms, Africans continue to obey the commands of other peoples, nations and continents telling them what to do. On 10 December, a petrified world […]
Study finds growth not helping Africa’s poor
Survey says African countries have failed to reduce poverty despite economic growth experienced over the past decade. Improved economic growth over the past decade in Africa has failed to reduce […]
Mandela, From Frame To Heart
Nelson Mandela smiled at me everyday when I walked by him. Softly curled lips and softly curled hair, his face beckoned me and I came to him. I’d plop myself […]
Mandela Can Leave Us In Peace, His Work Is done
The notion that SA will dissolve into race riots at the news of Nelson Mandela’s death is so unlikely as to be ridiculous, writes Verashni Pillay. News that our beloved […]
Where The Vagina Counts
Mothers lay their daughters on mattresses, spread their legs as wide as “Vs,” push their fingers inside their daughters’ vaginas and measure the depth of entry into the soft mounds […]
The Way You Make Me Feel: My Ode To Highlife
He came close, like danger. And nearly stole my heart, nearly snatched it out of its pulsating cavity. But he didn’t use his hands. He used the lazy groans of […]
South Africa Has A Black ‘Idol’
JOHANNESBURG — When Khaya Mthethwa breathed out the last notes of Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass,” a song he had heard for the first time that same day, the judges […]
Raising Africa’s Future Leaders
I recently learned about the African Leadership Academy and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Here is a world class secondary boarding school in South Africa that admits […]
