Category: Opinion

By Gloria Blizzard and Gillian Turnbull Music has been significant for many during COVID-19 isolation, and in these same months Black musicians have amplified the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement. While pop … Read More

By Alexander Diani Kofi Preko The 2019 Year of Return, when Ghana welcomed Africans in the diaspora to participate in events associated with the country’s rich cultural heritage, was an opportunity … Read More

By Marc Zimmer In 2007, I served as a consultant for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ deliberations about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As a result, I was invited … Read More

By Steven Friedman Claiming, as South Africa’s official opposition the Democratic Alliance (DA) does, that policy must ignore race in South Africa, is like insisting that economic inequality should have … Read More

From Left: Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Ellis Adjei Adams and Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie Health crises are not new in Africa. The continent has grappled with infectious diseases on all levels, from … Read More

By Ronit Frenkel In his 71 years, Achmat Dangor was many things to many people, both in South Africa and across the world. He was a lifelong activist and social justice advocate. He was … Read More

Anton Harber, the veteran South African journalist, editor and journalism professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, has a new book out. So, For the Record: Behind the Headlines in an … Read More