Category: Opinion

By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor When the revolutionary died in April 1993, the event drove the country to a knife edge. Several voices called for the suspension of the then … Read More

Lyombe Eko, Texas Tech University One of Cameroon’s most influential music stars – Jean-Paul Zé Bella – passed away on 15 January at the age of 71 after a battle … Read More

Sisanda Nkoala, Cape Peninsula University of Technology This year marks 100 years since radio was introduced in South Africa, through “the first experimental broadcast at the Railway Headquarters in Johannesburg” … Read More

James Chikomborero Paradza, University of Pretoria Beyoncé announced her highly anticipated Renaissance World Tour on the first day of Black History Month – an annual observance in the US that … Read More

Kylie Thomas, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Photographer Ernest Cole was born in 1940 in the Pretoria township of Eersterust, just before apartheid was formally introduced in … Read More

Eliza Goodpasture, University of York The category of “art book” is vast, like art itself, but the best ones mix beautiful, interesting images with engaging and intelligent text. The books … Read More

Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University For Africa to have multiple teams go beyond the group phase to reach the Round of 16 in a World Cup is a milestone. The remarkable … Read More