Eve Fairbanks

2 weeks ago | theunpopulist.net | Eve Fairbanks

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. In the discussion about the alleged White genocide in South Africa currently underway in America, something has been lost: the voice of local South Africans. Most of those counseling Donald Trump don’t live in the country. For example, Trump’s ex-First Buddy Elon Musk emigrated from South Africa in 1989.

Jan 13, 2024 | politico.com | Eve Fairbanks

The Political Education of Christina Pushaw, Ron DeSantis’ Enforcer on XRon DeSantis’ enforcer on X has said she spent a few years living abroad in Georgia, traveling and enjoying life. It’s actually where she learned an especially ruthless kind of politics. Illustration by Axel Rangel Garciá for POLITICOEve Fairbanks is a writer and a senior editor at Foreign Affairs.

Nov 30, 2023 | thedial.world | Eve Fairbanks

There’s a legend among South Africans that, if you travel overseas, people will ask if you walked to school riding a lion. That’s hyperbole, but it represents a truth: the questions you get are baffling, suggesting a warped or even completely imaginary version of the country exists abroad. That version is often either a fairy tale — a place redeemed by a single smiling saint, Nelson Mandela — or a pastiche of exotic images: thatched huts, rhinoceros poachers, beaded necklaces.

Aug 27, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Chuong Nguyen |Eve Fairbanks |Helen Andrews

Originally Recorded July 25th, 2023 Check out Eve Fairbanks’s book The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, now on paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Inheritors-Intimate-Portrait-Africas-Reckoning/dp/1476725276/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Check out Helen Andrews’s review of Eve’s book, Look Back In Anger, published in the Claremont Review of Books: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/look-back-in-anger/ Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy...

Aug 18, 2023 | infolibre.es | Eve Fairbanks

En 1994, el último régimen segregacionista racial del mundo cayó para dar paso a un nuevo sistema que carecía de precedentes y que dejaba a sus ciudadanos liberados y desamparados al mismo tiempo. Esta es la historia de Dipuo, una de las activistas cuya lucha hizo caer el apartheid, pero también de su hija Malaika, que sobrevive en un mundo hostil y violento del que sigue sin sentirse parte.