By Elliot Ross, Guest Blogger We don’t give Africa a pass just because we are Africans. It’s a mistake to respond to blanket negative coverage with blanket positive coverage. Africa is overexposed not underexposed. We just get the wrong kind of exposure. The words of Ugandan journalist Angelo Izama at a recent, wide-ranging conference on the […]
Tendai Biti tells the story of being on a plane to an international conference with Robert Mugabe. Mugabe approached his finance minister and prodded his shoulder accusingly. “Biti,” he said. “Your trouble is that you forget that we are a sovereign state.” “No,” replied Biti, unflinching in his retelling of the exchange at least, “we […]
Two-day conference on May 6 and 7 on the campus of Columbia University in Manhattan’s Upper West Side :
