Monday, February 18th, 2013
Jezebel has already gone overboard commenting on and identifying the obvious misogyny and racial stereotyping in Sports Illustrated’s Seven Continents spread. They went through each photo, tagging them with gems such as:
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Over the weekend, Geoffrey York, the Africa correspondent for the Canadian Globe and Mail (and apparently also the only correspondent for a major Canadian publication on the African continent) wrote, from Namibia, about the current Herero struggle...
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany’s arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy. The Nobel prize-winning author has written a poem – called ‘What needs to be said’ – which...
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
So the Bundestag have once again refused to acknowledge that the systematic murders of four ethnic groups in Namibia between 1904 and 1908 wasn’t genocide. Late last month, March 22, the German parliament debated a motion proposed...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Namibian rapper Exit and kwaito artist Gazza both live in the same street in Oshakati, so this collaboration for ‘To Ti Ngaa’ must have come effortlessly. You’ll recognize the TransNamib Railway Museum in Windhoek — still a...
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