Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

Africa’s crises are routinely framed as internal and self-generated. Conflict is presented as dysfunction. Poverty as ...

Coming out of the African Savanna to the bustling city of Johannesburg, South Africa, was a dramatic change from our eight days of living in tents in the national parks of Zimbabwe and Botswana. The ...

More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...

Keith Gottschalk is a member of the ANC, but writes this review in his professional capacity as a political scientist. Thula Simpson’s new book, History of South Africa from 1902 to the Present, is an ...

South Africa cannot remain silent on the unresolved land question as it moves forward with land reform to address historical ...

Museums and universities around the world hold vast collections of cultural artefacts, artworks, objectified belongings and even ancestral remains. Many were not freely given but taken during colonial ...