Yes we have a global domination strategy. WordPress (here), Twitter, Facebook and now Tumblr.
Tumblr is a country
May 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
Africa is a Country; the academic edition
March 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
Between them Wayne Marshall and Martin Murray pointed me to these 2 panels at the recent annual meeting of the American Geographical Association that took place here in New York City: [Read more...]
Africa is a Country on Twitter and Facebook
January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This is just a reminder to not forget that we also have a new @Africasacountry account on Twitter where we tweet and retweet media criticism and analysis as well as new music, sports, arts and photography. Follow us there. The same goes for our Facebook page. Like us there too.
Africa is a Country
June 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Must be our blog title.
Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill’s Congress Blog about US foreign aid in a piece about policing the already shrinking foreign aid budget that’s currently only 1.5% of all federal spending:
It does not matter how little the amount sent to foreign countries, it is the principal of the thing…why send aid to china, a country that continues to grow our debt and buy it up and yet we send them aid? why send aid to africa, we owe that country nothing, just as we owe nothing to every other country..we Americans fought our way out of our own tyranny and yet we did it…they should do the same without our help…we even had less and do less than those countries do now and yet we help them…why?
Africa, Assume the Position?
December 21, 2010 By 6 Comments
I love that African artists are getting exhibition space in European galleries. But being told to “Assume Art Position” by a Milanese gallery?
Africa really is a country
June 9, 2010 By 2 Comments
While everybody back home in South Africa today celebrated Vuvuzela Day, the rest of us had to find something else with which to show our support for our local team – like a T-shirt, for example. So thankfully the UK sports chain Decathlon had shirts on sale for those football supporters who really believe that, like other countries such as Brazil, France, England and Italy whose shirts you can buy here, you really should also be able to show your support for that other biggish country down south. Go Africa!
– Herman Wasserman (h/t Helena)
“We’re Cool Like That”
June 6, 2010 By 7 Comments
Last week I got an email from a reader, Sojourner Ahebee , 14 years old, originally fron Cote d’Ivoire, now living in the United States. Turns out she’s a big fan of Africa is a Country. That’s a good start. (Sojourner has her own blog, a culture blog for teens of color called Sojo’s Trumpet.) She sent me a poem that she had written for an assignment in a diversity class at her school. The assignment “… was to write a poem addressing the stereotypes I felt overwhelmed by and to counter those perceptions.” I asked her if I could post the poem on our blog. She obliged.
US STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS OUT MY BLOG
October 6, 2009 By 1 Comment
Last week The Brookings Institute held a conversation with the Nigerian Foreign Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe on “The Nigeria-U.S. Partnership for Regional Security in Africa,” in Washington D.C. Not really earth shattering stuff, except when 52 minutes into the discussion a senior US State Department official for Africa decided to call out my blog. Serious.
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* As for the image, above, it has nothing to do with it; I just wanted to put up a picture of Chantal Biya, the First Lady of Cameroon, and her husband, Life President Paul Biya, with Barack and Michelle Obama. [[H/T: Daniel Morris]
