Commentary: How I Matured and Increased My Self-Confidence Studying In South Africa Last Summer
Jorian Reeves. I had my first taste of global cultural learning in 2015 when I traveled to Qatar at the age of 14 for a week-long Arabic debate…
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Deja Vu 1960s: Malcolm X Discusses Role Of Western Press In Congo and Glorification of “Clear Winner” Tshombe
Malcolm X at the Oxford Union debate. The following passage is excerpted from Malcolm X's Oxford Union Debate speech delivered December 3, 1964. Here he discusses the role…
Billie Holiday Theatre’s Global Call for Submissions: Women’s Stories for “50in50: Letters to Our Daughters”
Dominique Morisseau. The Billie Holiday Theatre (BHT) has announced its global call for stories for the third annual presentation of its popular 50in50: Letters to Our Daughters in…
“WINNIE”– Screening at Teacher’s College
"WINNIE". Photo-Flickr A Conversation about South Africa to follow WINNIE screening Saturdat, Dec. 9 at 8:30PM. African Diaspora International Film Festival. Supremely controversial, Winnie Mandela has been labeled…
Africa: The Struggle For Land and Freedom in Uganda
Gen. Museveni--weary dictator has clocked nearly 32 years. Photo: Flickr Fellow Ugandans, have you noticed whenever there is a heated debate and the dictator Gen. Yoweri Museveni is…
SOUTH AFRICA PURSUES NUCLEAR POWER DESPITE RISKS
Nov. 28, 2016 (GIN) – Geologists at the Africa Earth Observatory Network fear that a nuclear power station built over canyons in bedrock, as proposed by South Africa’s…
Zulaikha Patel – How We Wish We Were You
Zulaikha -- hair power! (Please see The Daily Vox) I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it. The little girl now known to all…
SINCE ‘MARIKANA MASSACRE,’ NEW CHARGES ROCK BRITISH MINING GIANT
Aug. 15, 2016 (GIN) – Prayers are being said this week for 34 men, employees of the UK mining company Lonmin, who were fatally shot Aug. 16, 2012…
PARTY OF MANDELA HEARS CALLS FOR CHANGE
Aug. 1, 2016 (GIN) – This week’s municipal polls will reveal the depth of disenchantment with the historic African National Congress. Massive unemployment, failing basic services and corruption…
APARTHEID-ERA VICTIMS SUFFER DEFEAT IN U.S. COURT
June 27, 2016 (GIN) – Efforts by South African victims of racist apartheid to obtain justice suffered a new defeat in the U.S. Supreme Court this month when…