Africa

Bishop Johannes Seoka takes the mining company to task, nearly five years after the massacre.…

A provocative novel in which a starving African is brought to London to perform for the cameras for charity.…

Now entering its eighteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere..…

Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Migrations.…

The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand. .…

Stair-climbing wheelchairs and electric tuk-tuks are among local engineers’ answers to the many challenges facing their communities. Laurence Ivil reports.…

Monsanto’s so-called drought tolerant GM maize won't tackle the drought and the root causes of hunger in South Africa, write Haidee Swanby and Linzi Lewis.…

New Internationalist’s world fiction titles.…

View From The South…

The current 'beatification' of Mandela is an attempt to neutralize his political legacy, says Steve Parry.…