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The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life—a film, "Albie: A Strange Alchemy," headlines a broader multimedia…
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The Imagination of Rashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard, who died on 4 June 2025, documented apartheid’s struggle and later shaped Cape Town’s jazz and media, leaving a profound cultural…
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The Literal White House
South Africa's president held his ground in his visit to Donald Trump, but the real issue is forging a Global South, and African identity, free from…
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The Imagination of Rashid Lombard
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The Literal White House
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The Last Refuge
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Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
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Son of Table Mountain
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The Elegance of Smriti Mandhana
This is the fifth in the series of Vijay Prashad's monthly column on cricket, Leg Glance, which appears in Deshabhimani Weekly in Kerala.
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Sober Commentators
Donald Trump's regime can always count on support from "sober" South African commentators who know who is meant to rule the world and who is meant to…
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You Mustn't Push
A rundown of Episode 5 of We're Brothers, the weekly podcast I record with my younger, David. Link to the episode at the end of the summary.
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Every Native is a Tourist
A rundown of everything we talked about on the latest episode — number 6 — of We’re Brothers, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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The Yorkers of Shamar Joseph
The latest republication of Vijay Prashad's monthly column on cricket called Leg Glance that appears in Deshabhimani Weekly in Kerala.
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The display of piety is a sure sign of corruption
My latest roundup of football happenings outside the lines.
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The South Asian Quicks, Part I (1978-79)
This is from Vijay Prashad's monthly column on cricket called Leg Glance. It appears in Deshabhimani Weekly in Kerala.
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ELEVEN NAMED PEOPLE
A newsletter inspired by Eric Hobsbawm's assertion that the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.
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