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The media blog that is not about famine, Bono, or Barack Obama. Contributors are: Sean Jacobs (he started AIAC), Daniel Magaziner, Neelika Jayawardane, Boima Tucker, Tom Devriendt, Elliot Ross, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Sophia Azeb, Dan Moshenberg, Brett Davidson, Orlando Reade, Jonathan Faull, Caitlin Chandler, Gregory Mann, Dylan Valley, Emily Wood, Marissa Moorman, Lily Saint, Mikko Kapanen, Wills Glasspiegel, Melissa Levin, Loren Lynch, Olufemi Terry, Megan Eardley, Hinda Talhaoui, 'kola, Davy Lane, Siddhartha Mitter, Johan Palme, Steffan Horowitz, Justin Scott, Dennis Laumann, Kweli Jaoko, Jumoke Verissimo, Zachary Rosen, Shamira Muhammad, Maria Ximena Plaza, T.O. Molefe, Ts'eliso Monaheng, Maria Hengeveld, Corinna Jentzsch, Nicholas Barber, Serginho Roosblad, Roxsanne Dyssell, Cheta Nwanze, Sarah El-Shaarawi, Jimmy Kainja, Claudio Silva and Jacques Enaudeau. Pre-August 2009 posts are archived here.
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- 10 Things Obama won't be doing on his Africa trip (6): Ask white South Africans whether they have a future there (they do, btw) 17 minutes ago
- 10 Things Obama Won't Do on His Africa Trip (7): Apply for Citizenship of Africa. 27 minutes ago
- 10 Things Obama won't be doing on his Africa trip: (8): Trouble China. That "race" was over long ago and America lost. 32 minutes ago
- 10 Things Obama won't be doing on his Africa trip (9): give patronizing lectures to Africans about being good fathers (we could be wrong) 37 minutes ago
- 10 things Obama won't be doing on his Africa tour (10): Meet African heads of state in groups of four, as he likes to do in Washington DC. 42 minutes ago
- Coming up: 10 things Obama won't be doing on his Africa tour (if you missed it, he's going to #SouthAfrica, #Tanzania and #Senegal) 47 minutes ago
- M&G reader S.M. calls out Rian Malan, @GuardianAfrica twitter.com/GuardianAfrica… & @SmithinAfrica twitter.com/SmithInAfrica/…: mg.co.za/article/2013-0… 2 hours ago
- Look who's on BBC's frontpage: bbc.co.uk It's @Jaakspraak: bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Paarl cc @Dplanet @bro_slovo @mikmikko 4 hours ago
- BTW, how will South Africa's media react if Barack Obama (drones, Guantanamo refers) wants a photo-op with Mandela next month? 7 hours ago
- RT @TonyKaron: BTW, I was alerted to #Seedorf Milan rumor by the indispensable @AfricasaCountry football subsidiary 8 hours ago
