Pretty Yende performs at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 2019. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images
by Thembela Vokwana, University of Fort Hare
Among the global music...
Racist depictions of Africa as a dark continent abound in history. Here US filmmakers pose with Africans in 1925. Osa & Martin Johnson Safari Mus./Getty...
European explorers named the continent, not Africans. Ipsumpix/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
by Jonathan O. Chimakonam, University of Pretoria
Should African people be called black – or is the...
Mpho Molutsi from the Children’s Radio Foundation during a live community broadcast in Johannesburg. Gulshan Khan/AFP/Getty Images
by Sisanda Nkoala, University of the Western Cape; Christina...
