Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the London Festival of Photography is an embarrassment of riches. This exhibition of images recovered from the remains of Gaddafi’s archives and rephotographed by a team assembled by Human Rights Watch, opened yesterday at UCL. The first three rooms document official
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Strange bedfellows in the Malian Sahara of late. The Tuareg rebel movements that took control of northern Mali last month looked to have struck a deal over the weekend, only to have it come into question since....
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Gregory Mann, associate professor of history at Columbia University in New York City,* writes a guest post for Africa is a Country on the coup in Mali:
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
It’s that time of year again. The students in my required Media and Culture course at The New School (I have a day job yes) just uploaded their final projects–a short documentary or commentary piece (limit under...
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Every major Western government now makes up histories of long-held opposition to Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship. Then there’s the truth: As The Financial Times reminded its readers in January this year (H/T: Peter Dwyer) the West’s 2003 decision...
Bono’s Big Ideas (for Africa of cou...
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VICE and the “new journalism model”...
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20 Feb 2012 at 6:00 pm
An African in the Arctic
21 Jun 2011 at 3:04 pm
The Hajj of the Revolution?
2 Nov 2011 at 11:26 am
Film Africa (3): The struggle of th...
29 Oct 2012 at 9:00 am
‘Syn City’ Harare
16 Oct 2012 at 12:30 pm
Summer List | Africa Tumblrs
26 Jul 2012 at 3:00 am
Mali’s coup — ‘Politics is bad’
27 Mar 2012 at 12:00 am
