I have been a little silent lately here on AIAC. I’m gonna start posting more, although perhaps in briefer form (do visit duttyartz.com to see some of what I’ve been up to recently). For now I leave you with the White Mandingos: About these ads
When videos of abuses go viral in Angola
February 14, 2013 By 4 Comments
For the past two weeks, most Angolans that frequent Facebook and other social media sites viewed and shared two particularly gruesome videos. One showed prison officials severely beating incarcerated men in the Comarca de Viana (Viana Jail), while the other, even more heinous, showed several men brutally beating and abusing two women who had allegedly […]
Zambia’s Gossip Girl
November 13, 2012 By 8 Comments
Even as a child, I knew Zambia was a media dictatorship. No one dared say too much that criticised the government; and anyway, where did we get our daily news? Two sources — a nationalised newspaper, and a nationalised television station, both of which were (and apparently continue to be) government mouthpieces. The ZNBC news […]
File Under No Comment: ‘Send Me To Africa’
September 11, 2012 By 3 Comments
With a click of the button… (a contest sponsored by sponsors). It’s an empty landscape. With pyramids.
Today I’ll eat for Belgium
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Yes, some Europeans, specifically Belgians — who else but “a fine group of web designers, web developers, communication specialists, tech, boys and girls” — came up with this idea. So if someone asks you why you need another piece of cake, just say “I’m eating for Africa.” To help starving “people and children” in East […]
Elections in Zambia
August 3, 2011 By 9 Comments
In the 3rd grade, I came back fresh from my first civics lesson in Mrs. Marshall’s class at Nkana Trust School, to announce, “Zambia is a One-Party Participatory Democracy. Kenneth Kaunda is our President. He believes in Humanism and UNIP won 99.99% of the vote.” I think my father mumbled something that expressed the trifecta […]
F***yesafricans
June 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Someone started a a page called fuckyesafricans in the vein of the “fuckyes” tumblr meme. For those unfamiliar with the format, the dry title is meant for irony filled humor to follow once you click the link. Fuckyesafricans has its funny moments, but it lacks irony, which makes it kind of miss the point of […]
Strawberries and Peri-Peri
April 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The website of South Africa’s ruling party was down for a minute after hackers took it over. The site is back up again. But given that lately ANC leaders make no distinction between political office and running businesses, I don’t know what’s the worry about: The ANC has vowed to “unhack” its website after visitors were […]
Vanity Fair does Egypt
April 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
Vanity Fair’s May issue features a photographic series of young Egyptians dubbed, at various points in the accompanying article, ‘tech-savvy internet activists.’ The first photograph is of Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who created the Arabic-language Facebook page, “We Are All Khaled Said.” Ghonim (in the photo above) emerged as a hero of sorts (despite […]
The World According to Facebook
December 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see “how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends.” He took about ten million friendships—that is, pairs of Facebook friends—and, using the locations provided by those friends, calculated the number of friendships between cities. By combining the […]
