Who took this picture?It was a cold winter morning in Soweto. The time was 10:15. The date was June 16, 1976. Sam Nzima, a 42-year old photographer with The...
A rising starYou have heard of famous singers like Miriam Makeba, Brenda Fassie, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Letta Mbuli and Margaret Singana — but have you...
The struggle for socialism in TanzaniaTanzania is a poor country. But it is trying to give its people a rich future, which everyone can share. This is a socialist future — but...
Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities....
Our kind of jazzWho is the father of our kind of jazz? Why, Bra Zacks Nkosi, of course. He was the man who could make a saxophone talk. He did not have a...
From Lesotho with loveThe dirt roads in the mountains of Lesotho are always busy on a Sunday afternoon. Outside every village small groups of men wait for the...