Jeffrey Gettleman’s tired tome
Jeffrey Gettleman was until recently the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He left Africans a memoir, 'Love, Africa.'
Jeffrey Gettleman was until recently the East Africa correspondent for The New York Times. He left Africans a memoir, 'Love, Africa.'
On those images by South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, pairing perpetrators and victims of the 1994 Genocide.
Mainstream Western media outlets are only now learning to recognize and value diverse and creative African phenomena that have thrived for years.
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
Once again, The New York Times doesn't inform Western audiences about the complexities of governance in Africa or the agency of those who are ruled.
How the U.S.'s paper of record, the New York Times, "debates" South Africa's "future."
A New York Times article that's respectful and mostly accurate, including the use of terminology, when covering African Traditional Religion.
Also, dispelling the myth that all Arab men systematically oppress and victimize Arab women.
What The New York Times forgot to tell you about the explosion of digital music in Africa.
The New York Times, in its infinite wisdom (it comes with being The New York Times),
The question for Western journalists is this – when it comes to Africa, why do you not tell the whole story of the humanity at work even in times of extreme violence?
We’ve blogged here about what’s been wrong about the coverage of the murder of the relatively
Would former US Assistant Secretary for Africa, Susan Rice, have been a good choice for Barack Obama's Secretary of State?
It might not be Dakar or Nairobi, but Gaborone certainly does not look empty.
The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.
Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.
Guest Post by Anonymous* If you follow current headlines, you may have noticed a seemingly new
American media should focus on the real political struggles in Zimbabwe and not think that the government of national unity has brought Zimbabwe out of a period of violent political conflict.
From a series of tweets I did on the New York Times story “Rebranding Africa” which
Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for "his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa."