I recently ask students in a graduate class I teach on ‘media, culture and international affairs’ to do an experiment: take a camera, go outside (really downstairs on the New School ‘campus’) and test people’s knowledge of Darfur and Eastern Congo. Quick context: We had been reading and discussing Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors as […]
We’ve all heard the one about the model and the dictator. The setting is South Africa, 1997. President Nelson Mandela is hosting several prominent figures as guests in his home. Quincy Jones is there (the man gets around—literally). Supermodel—back when that meant something—Naomi Campbell is there. As is Charles Taylor, President of Liberia. (We may […]
The former Liberian warlord, who is being tried for war crimes, is in mainstream American news again this week:
