Malawi’s crazy mobile phone rates
Why the silence on a story of pressing concern to ordinary Malawians?: Corporations in Malawi have more media influence than the government.
Why the silence on a story of pressing concern to ordinary Malawians?: Corporations in Malawi have more media influence than the government.
It is a lot to ask the world to accept the multiple truths of Rwanda and it was too much for the film to explain this picture in all of its complicated nuance and actually share with us what remains untold about Rwanda’s story.
"Top Gear" presents Africa as background to white, English gentlemanly machismo.
Read it here. The piece is by longtime foreign correspondent John Simpson. The main claims of the
Plying potential audiences with expansive vistas, mystery, exotic landscapes, and ancient holdovers are time worn formulas when presenting Africa to Western audiences.
Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.
The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.
A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.
Can a belief be condemned as immoral? Or must we accept cultural difference, and merely condemn the acts that follow as a consequence?
The 46-minute video of the 2010 BBC World “Debate” with the unfortunate title: “Is Homosexuality Un-African?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRw7DWPchE
The case of Nigeria's missing president, Umaru Yar'Adua, can be added to the already long list of problems in Africa's largest democracy.
The famed South African musician Hugh Masekela has a history of speaking his mind on postapartheid politics.
What came across as recognition of Africa Is a Country from a US State Department official, was more a case of speaking too fast.