With their colorful costumes and tall stature, the Maasai people of the Great Rift Valley region of East Africa are perhaps the most photographed tribe in...
Besides white, perhaps the only other color that gets mentioned in Orania is orange. Orania, a whites-only town flanked by the majestic and breathtaking Orange River,...
African jazz legend Thandi Klaasen saw and sang through it all; many years of hunger, oppression and an acid bomb thrown into her face. When she...
If girls were meant to fly, God would have painted the skies pink.” These were the first words Chipo Matimba heard from a male colleague when...
The issue of gender inclusion once again featured in this year’s Mining Indaba in Cape Town in February. And there were no surprises – mining is...
Although Namibia’s economy is growing the poor say they are being left behind.
It was the dangerous days leading up to South Africa’s first democratic elections on April 27, 1994. Jodi Bieber, a newspaper rookie photographer, was sent on...
Among several other roles, self-made South African businesswoman Florence Musengi is founder of WAYAM Communications Consulting and the owner of an apparel company, WAYAM Clothing, specializing...
On a balmy Johannesburg morning, we meet South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi at the Stevenson Studios in Braamfontein, a colorful cultural hub north of...
It was the saddest moment of my entire existence, not even my mother’s death was as sad as getting Sarah Baartman home,” says Chief Jean Burgess...