In Africa, Shirtlifters Will Be Prosecuted!

It’s Juneteenth, and to celebrate 158 years since the end of American slavery, why not make amends by adopting a poor black woman’s clitoris? That is the idea behind ClitorAid, a genuine charity started by a “pro-clit” global UFO cult, the Raelians, following a meeting between the sect’s founder, Rael, and some black African victims of Female ...


The Evil Vampires of Malawi

The vampires are back in Malawi again, but no one is taking it seriously. Here, in one of the world’s poorest nations, where the nominal GDP is only $1 a day, one in ten adults has HIV, and life expectancy is only 50, the vampires ...

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Huntin’ Homos in Tanzania

The oldest remains of the genus Homo were found in Tanzania near Lake Olduvai, so it’s a bit queer that Tanzania is currently so homo-hostile. Late in January, the US State Department banned Paul Makonda, Regional Commissioner of ...

The Tragedy of Africa

It’s over sixty years since Ghana became independent from Britain. The world celebrated as the sun began to set on the imperial era. “African Nationalism,” in the form of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, entered the stage, and the world ...

The Sensible Solution to Africa’s Overpopulation Problem

People in sub-Saharan Africa have loads and loads of problems, but not when it comes to having babies. As far as generating prosperity, ensuring longevity, and protecting its inhabitants from violence and disease go, sub-Saharan Africa ...

Absa Bank, Johannesburg

Lebedev Takes On the West

A recent article in The Spectator about Alexander Lebedev makes interesting reading; almost as interesting as the man himself. Born to parents belonging to the Soviet nomenklatura in Moscow in 1959, he studied economics and graduated in ...

Robert Mugabe in his Robert Mugabe jacket

No Continent for Young Men

The death last Friday of Robert Mugabe, the big man of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017, is a reminder of the paradox that Africa, the most youthful continent, tends to be ruled by the old. When Mugabe was finally overthrown two years ago at ...

The Villains Who Care

I’ve said it before, but I think I can confidently state that I belong to one of the most hated minorities on the planet. Born in Rhodesia, of Afrikaans and German parentage, I’m a 63-year-old white, male, Christian heterosexual and ...

The Elephant in the Room

The African elephant issue is an extremely complex and divisive one, drawing attention from around the globe. Right now, the argument over whether or not to reopen safari hunting is fracturing the Botswana political establishment at the ...

Robert Mugabe

Whites Have No Place in Africa

On 11 December the South African Constitutional Court delivered a scathing judgment against former president Jacob Zuma’s decision in 2014 to support a Mugabe-initiated pseudo-legal maneuver to block a South African Development ...


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