South Africa
South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition
The singer-songwriter has always straddled between the worlds of globalization and the traditions of her homeland.
Young South Africans once worshipped the ANC. Now 'the party of Mandela' is tarnished.
In South Africa, HIV rates are rising in young women and girls. Our new series looks at the reasons why.
Women and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV
Yewande Omotoso’s “The Woman Next Door”
Yewande Omotoso on apartheid, architecture, and her novel "The Woman Next Door"
Lessons from South Africa as Georgetown attempts reparations for slavery
One of the first black deans at a university in South Africa says Georgetown's decision to offer preferred admission to descendants of slaves is "beautiful" — but only the beginning of a process.
South Africa's murder rate rises to over 50 people killed per day
South Africa's murder rate rose by 4.9 percent in the last year, official statistics showed Friday, with the police minister admitting the country was struggling with "a prevalent culture of violence."
A little blue box that might help save thousands of homes in South Africa
A one-time engineering student has created a battery-operated device that provides a community-wide alert for fire in South African townships.
Elephants trampling your crops? Release the bees.
How do you stop a six-ton hungry elephant from rampaging through your garden? In southern Africa, bees are the answer.
The real results of South Africa's hashtag campaigns
Wednesday’s protests in the major cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria drew thousands of largely middle class South Africans. They called for Zuma to resign or be “recalled” by his party, the African National Congress, which was returned to power in 2014
A South African university sheds the language of apartheid
Student protesters in South Africa are chalking up another victory in their "decolonization" campaign. Stellenbosch University, once a bastion of apartheid ideology, has agreed to stop teaching in Afrikaans and switch to English as the main language of instruction.
UPDATE: After massive protests, South Africa freezes tuition hikes
South Africa's president froze tuition hikes after violent confrontations between students and heavily armed police officers were broadcast live on national television. "The youth win!" one person responds on Twitter.
OkMalumKoolKat: Internet Jetset Zuper
South African rapper OkMalumKoolKat has released the single “Internet Jetset Zuper” as part of the Obey You Collective: South Africa Series from The Fader and Sprite. Oh yeah, it’s also his debut as a producer. Turn it up! We first featured ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/18356/okmalumkoolkat-internet-jetset-zuper/"> Read more »</a>
Video: iFani’s “iingoma Ezimnandi”
Although he has had his share of setbacks–including losing a major-label deal with Sony and getting carjacked and kidnapped– iFani has ascended quite rapidly to South African stardom. We covered that rise in last year’s “South Africa Today” program. After ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/18338/video-ifani-iingoma-ezimnandi/"> Read more »</a>