Grappling With Racism
Nothing divides the critics like a Salman Khan film. This year’s biggest film, about an underachieving…
Peacekeeper as Predator
I In a flash, innocence is lost, dignity stolen and a spirit beaten. It is a…
Out of Africa
I In early April last year, 32-year-old Amuri Djuma was attacked outside his small furniture store…
Boko Haram and the little girl whose name we will never know
Azad Essa comments on the escalating violence in Nigeria in the light of the recent massacre…
Ebola and the wilful tragedy of inaction
I “We don’t really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don’t…
The Folly Of History And The Twisted Irony Of A Single Tweet
As the world assuages its discomfort through virtually expressed outrage… Azad Essa contextualises the long and…
NO COUNTRY FOR THE POOR (An extract)
For millions of South Africans, Nelson Mandela’s passing signalled the end of an era. Returning home…
Rwanda: A Time To Remember
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, the world – which largely ignored the carnage at the…
Piece Keeping
Made a ‘nation’ from disparate pieces thrown together and kept together – barely – by the…
Africa:The End of Gays
The colonial powers, with their need for ‘order’ and their Christian notions of sin, codified a…