Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform. It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn’t hear often enough.
Category: Multimedia
Swaziland: A story of survival
In 2012 the Mail & Guardian obtained and published footage of an HIV-positive woman in Swaziland who had to eat cow dung to take her ARVs. This is an update on her story.
The untold African stories
Shooting hoops and swaying those hips: in this video, the Mail & Guardian meets young people from Zimbabawe, Gabon and Rwanda who share stories about their countries and cultures that you may not have heard before.
To Norway, with love from Africa
A spoof music video appealing to Africans to donate radiators to freezing children in Norway has received over two million YouTube hits since its release in November 2012. The video, a parody of the 1985 US hit We are the World, challenges stereotypes about the continent and features South African rapper Breezy V.