Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
A muted response in the blogosphere persuaded me to write about Israeli interior minister Eli Yishai’s now not-so-recent remark, which I’ve come to think of as ‘the “white man” comment’. If you missed it, in June 2012 Yishai, responding to criticism of Israel’s treatment of African migrants, claimed that: “Muslims that arrive here do not
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Earlier today on Twitter I summarized 80 year-old Egyptian feminist activist and writer Nawal el Saadawi’s comments in an interview published in the weekend edition of The Financial Times. The parts I did not tweet is about...
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The Ghanian Hip Hop pranksters FOKN Bois (who are deliberately setting out to prove that Ghanaian music is more than highlife, hiplife or azonto) are back with perhaps their craziest project yet. In celebration of yesterday’s day of...
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
By now you’ve probably watched the (British) Channel 4 TV documentary film about Nigeria’s millionaire preachers–the fake healings, buckets full of money, police escorts, mall openings and the flash, amidst grinding poverty. I watched it last night....
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
On the “sponsored” section of my Facebook wall, an Amazon advert for a “stunning book for those who love Africa, travel or prayer. “… ‘Like Breath & Water’ inspires with stories of tears and hopes across Africa.”...
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Whatever The New Yorker‘s rationale for commissioning a piece on Tyler Perry, the “critic-proof” producer and director of black popular theater and television (he is a darling of the mainstream), but it is good take...
Till Jesus Comes
26 Mar 2010 at 12:51 pm
‘Eritrea, My Country’
3 May 2011 at 12:46 pm
Long Live Busi Mhlongo
15 Jun 2010 at 5:23 pm
‘I wanna be a Nigerian so freaking ...
19 Jun 2011 at 8:00 am
Donald Trump comes to Kenya
29 Oct 2012 at 2:00 am
Aesthetics of the Phallus
31 May 2012 at 2:00 pm
Race politics in Ghana
18 Jan 2013 at 6:00 am
Freedom Day
27 Apr 2013 at 3:00 am
‘Very African and Very Modern’
1 Feb 2012 at 9:00 am
