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Jennifer Hudson is no Winnie Mandela
June 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Representation of Ghana
May 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
In early April CNN‘s website posted a video report on internet fraud in Ghana by its media partners, hipster producers Vice. The program focused on “Sakawa,” a form of internet scamming popular in Ghana, similar to the 419 scam originating in Nigeria. The Vice piece suggested that Sakawa, popular among young men, was out of […]
The Elephant in the Room
April 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
Will the “global” furore over GoDaddy CEO’s canned elephant hunt really lead to a boycott of his company? Last week when Bob Parsons, CEO of the Internet domain company boasted of his latest kill, and posted pictures and video of himself posing with a gun and a prone elephant on his Twitter site, outrage ensued. […]
‘We should have left it in North Africa in the first place’
March 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
Patriotism, Ivorian Style
March 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
Away from Al Jazeera English, Twitter, Facebook and CNN’s cameras and his country’s media muzzled and harassed, Cote d’Ivoire’s life president and xenophobe, Laurent Gbagbo, uses the army (this is crucial support; about 60,000 men) and armed youths– doing drill exercises in the football strip of the national soccer team and calling themselves “The Young […]
THE INDOMINABLE LION
December 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
CNN just published a list of the eleven players who dominated and defined football in the 2000s. Samuel Eto’o of Inter Milan and Cameroon and probably the best footballer out of Africa, is the only continental player that made the list. That’s deserved. Eto’o, by the way, is also the official face of next June’s […]
Mugabe’s propaganda coup
October 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
