Hard as it is, some gangsters do leave gangs. A new book, based on a 5-year study, tracks the lives of 24 former gang members.
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He is the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to lift the Prix Goncourt, one of the book world’s most important prizes. And his win matters.
The majority of front page reports were negative in tone, seeing very little possibility for individual agency and self-efficacy. This can amplify public anxiety and fear.
After years of pressure, western countries are finally returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. What's next?
Will white South Africa ever give up part of its privilege? This is the contentious issue at the heart Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel.
Migration can be a matter of life and death, but religion can help people cope.
The author set out to understand how the faith of displaced LGBT people in South Africa has evolved over time, and how religion has shaped their experiences of displacement.
Jazz star Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has turned 70. In 50 years, his music career has come to help define South African politics and popular culture.
Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
It’s important to guard against empty gestures. Taking the knee represents a start. But on its own it won’t bring meaningful change to the lives of black people.
Africans are stereotyped as having no regard for time and timing. This is a myth.
Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Young Nigerians are culturally encouraged to overdrink. How can they be protected?
The Nigerian military needs a systemic approach to solving family disruptions and strains often caused by personnel deployment away from home.
Shari’a, most certainly, is not just a tool of violent radicals with a particular set of ideas about sexual morality and gender relations.
If women are to have a public voice in Ghana’s media ecology then a great deal more needs to happen.
The film showed how a country can win militarily, but still lose the battle for ‘hearts and minds’.
Gurnah’s novels delve deeply into family separation, endless betrayals of core familial relations, and the inexorable pull of the lost past.
Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
Across the country, South Africans were stepping up to support one another in ways we have rarely seen.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s stories suggest that it is important to see others in relation to ourselves, to perceive their right of abode even if they cannot claim national belonging.
The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
Robben Island Museum aspired to be part of the reconstruction and development of the national soul.