Africa has often served as a laboratory of self-discovery for privileged outsiders. Since the era of colonial adventurers, as Nadifa Mohamed notes, the continent has been a site “for dreams…
Tag: Journalism
How to cover Eritrea
Eritrea has expelled all international correspondents and banned local private newspapers since 2001. One consequence…
How do we talk about rebel groups?
Talking about rebel groups is especially the conundrum for journalists and researchers who follow the…
Getting beyond the usual South African reporting on “Africa”
It is still not uncommon to hear South Africans say that they’re going on a…
The last Journalists in a dictatorship
Anjan Sundaram’s new book, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, takes aim at the…
How to report on the student protests in South Africa
Following protest action at the University of Cape Town and Wits University in Johannesburg against…
The War Story We Need Right Now
American media (and Western media in general) like their “bridge” characters; basically placing a (usually)…
Confessions of three humanitarians
There are days we’d sacrifice our colleagues/morals/integrity to avoid trawling through BS on the Internet. But…
Thoughts on Xenophobia from a South African in Mozambique
When you spend time in another country, you don’t expect news from home on the local…
Vice News and the war against Boko Haram
If you love violence and video games, watch the recent Vice News report, “The War…