'Let's pray that this is one bit of culture that won't make it out of Africa'

I just came across these videos: Number 13 in a humorous–and of course very ethnocentric–series of Youtube videos made in the UK entitled “World Cup 2010 Most Shocking Moments.”

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.