South Africa
Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu: An encounter in Hawaii
January 4, 2022Desmond Tutu may have been slight in height but he was a colossus in stature.
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‘Back of the Moon’: A Noirish apartheid-era South African film
March 3, 2021Director/co-writer and Oscar nominee Angus Gibson’s Back of the Moon is another example of why I love PAFF—the Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival. If not for this festival film buffs like moi probably would...
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Alphaeus Hunton: A life devoted to equality, liberation, and internationalism
February 26, 2021As an architect of the early struggle for African-American equality and Black liberation in Africa, Hunton was committed to exposing the links between Jim Crow and imperialism.
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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021The fight to save Black South Africans from starvation in 1946 foreshadowed the major struggles against apartheid that would define the decades to come.
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South Africa’s Communists condemn possible release of Chris Hani’s assassin
November 12, 2020Hani's murder, coming just as apartheid was ending, was intended to spark a racial civil war in South Africa.
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