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Human movement: Migration is a major issue, but there has not been enough action to deal with the root causes — such as inequality and instability across the continent. Photo: Delwyn
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Immigration debate is misdirected, savage 

It is also true that undocumented migration can create space for criminal activity. But we have to be honest: immigrants are not the main drivers of crime in this country. Data…

Pseudocracy: American exceptionalism continues to present as intact, despite actions such as bombing Iran and eviscerating Venezuela. Is America’s blatant lying today, in a sense, the boldest form of truth-telling? Photo: Trump Facebook page

The creative power of lies

America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy

Insolent: US President Donald Trump’s contempt for Africans is an intentional act of humiliation, designed to
denigrate them, strip them of dignity and exploit African leaders. Graphic: Supplied

From s***holes to summits

To call Mogadishu ‘garbage’ while extolling Botswana’s diamonds in the same sentence is not diplomacy; it is duplicity

Journeyman: Saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane drews deeply on the ritual of iladi or thanksgiving to create his latest album, Iladi.  Photo: Rez Inyanzi

The power of gratitude and tradition in Linda Sikhakhane’s ‘Iladi’

Linda Sikhakhane’s Iladi draws listeners into the spiritual world of thanksgiving rituals

Given the latest shifts in international diplomacy—most visibly shaped and constrained by enduring US hegemony—it is increasingly difficult to take the discipline of International Relations (IR) at face value

US, China join naval drills in Indonesia despite rifts

Officials said there would be 17 foreign vessels involved in the drills, which will focus on non-military operations with key allies

Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Africa can capitalise on China’s ascendancy

China’s economic rise and growing footprint presents an alternative to the West

Disjointed: Alfred ‘Paper Boi’ Miles, played by Brian Tyree Henry (left), and Earn, played by Donald Glover, in a scene from ‘Atlanta’

One Show Two Takes: ‘Atlanta’

The season’s finale leaves our two reviewers wanting

Transplanted: Steven Yeun (centre) plays Jacob, the husband in family drama Minari, which can be streamed on Showmax. Photo: (A24)

Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South

In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks

US President elect Donald Trump.   (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump unlikely to settle for golf

A narrow victory will mean that the election results won’t be settled anytime soon

DETROIT, MI – NOVEMBER 04: Election workers and Election observers and challengers at the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board Voting at TCF Center, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 in Detroit, MI. With the surge in vote by mail/absentee ballots, analysts cautioned it could take days to count all the ballots, leading some states to initially look like victories for President Trump only to later shift towards democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden.  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Diary of an elections spotter

Fear and loathing in Trump’s America, where every bit of news can be worse than no news at all

The McKinsey dossier part 6 – five strikes and you’re IN

How McKinsey is making $100m and counting) advising the US government’s coronavirus response

For the world’s best-known corporate-management consultants, helping tackle the pandemic has been a bonanza. It’s not clear what the US government has gotten in return

Protestors raise placards in front of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park.  (Chika Oduah)

America’s ‘Black Mecca’ rallies against racist police brutality

Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US

The makeshift memorial surrounding Cup Foods where George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis  police officer on Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Minneapolis , Minnesota. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Understanding the violent protests across America

The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination

As we grieve George Floyd, we mourn and grieve our children’s innocence as once again we have to explain how this country’s racism has taken yet another black person’s life. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
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‘Soon he’ll be seen as threatening, not cute’: What it’s like to raise my black son in America

There is no separating George Floyd’s killing from the struggles black people have faced ever since the first slave ships landed on these shores

More than 900 Americans to be evacuated from South Africa

Three flights are expected to leave South Africa over two days, embassy spokesperson says

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)

‘US good, China bad’ is Pompeo’s message to Africa

During his African tour this past week, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked up Washington’s ability to stimulate growth and entrepreneurship on the continent.

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Editorial: Democrats must unite

The best chance for Democrats to beat Trump is by taking an opposite approach to his insular and isolated one