Monday, May 13th, 2013
Africa is a Country readers may not regularly check the London Review of Books, a British literary magazine with a circulation just over 50,000–it’s meant more for Bloomsbury than Bamako or Bloemfontein (though some readers could probably find it in Brooklyn; it’s online too with a subscription)–but the magazine has a pretty good, though not
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Author Adam Hochschild interviewed by PBS program, Need to Know, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. A conspiracy of American, Belgian and Congolese military and diplomatic operatives played a...
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
The Eisenhower administration wrongly cast Patrice Lumumba as a proponent of Soviet ideology. the CIA provided Joseph Mobutu with the support he needed for a military coup. CIA Station Chief in the Congo, Larry Devlin, was...
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Guest post by Brussels-based anthropologist and, more importantly, Africa is a Country reader Tom Devriendt on a new graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists taking stock of the half-century of DRC...
Friday, April 30th, 2010
@Boima (at Ghetto Bassquake) posted a music video (via Sonja Uwimana) by the Congolese artist Baloji, “… the greatest music video maker in the world right now.” Baloji is doing an update of Grand Kalle...
Hugh Masekela the critic
10 May 2010 at 9:00 am
Africa in black and white in the 19...
18 Nov 2010 at 12:04 pm
The ANC Goes Pop
4 May 2011 at 10:55 am
Wide Open Walls in The Gambia
30 Jun 2011 at 2:00 pm
The new type of Senegalese
2 Apr 2012 at 12:30 am
German amnesia and Herero women
23 Oct 2012 at 4:00 am
Mubarak is a Diva
22 Jun 2012 at 3:31 am
McDonald’s Baobab Tree
29 Oct 2012 at 1:00 pm
No, Africans don’t remember Margare...
9 Apr 2013 at 6:00 am
