Category: Opinion

F. Fiona Moolla, University of the Western Cape How does it come about that a man who dedicated the greater part of his life to a vision of a just … Read More

Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has in some ways become like Animal Farm. Like the pigs in the classic 1945 novel by English writer George … Read More

Doseline Kiguru, University of Bristol and Patrick Ernest Monte, Kabarak University Choral music – patriotic choral music in particular – is a significant genre in Kenya’s political history. Patriotic music … Read More

Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s … Read More

Tomà Berlanda, University of Cape Town Presented since 1979, the Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is possibly the most influential architecture exhibition in the world. For the first … Read More

Jonny Steinberg, Yale University A powerful new book on Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has just been published. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is at once a double … Read More

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria The rousing notes of the British national anthem God Save The King rang loudly in London’s Westminster Abbey when King Charles III was crowned – … Read More