Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Remember Susan Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State who wasn’t? It might seem old news now, as Senator John Kerry sits in front of his colleagues seeking their constitutionally-mandated “consent” to his appointment to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, replacing Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election in November,
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
We recently posted a bit on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 40 richest Africans. In a similar vain, Al Jazeera has chosen to glorify Africa’s privileged few and feed into Western media outlets’ current obsession with the...
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
MTV Base, the music channel’s African subsidiary carried on satellite TV, have been making these upbeat video features, where a group of upwardly mobile young Africans–most based on the continent–interview leading businesspeople, entertainers and a few public...
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
I just wasted 47 minutes watching the latest installment in Youtube’s much hyped “World View” series with presidents and prime ministers; this time the subject was Rwanda’s Life President, Paul Kagame. The interview was conducted by...
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Stephen Smith in The London Review of Books: I am not arguing that we should all know everything there is to know about Rwanda. My point is that we don’t seem to want to know what happened...
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Music Break
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How to deal with sexual violence in...
15 Feb 2013 at 6:00 am
Mandela and the ANC
22 Jan 2012 at 3:00 pm
Happy Birthday Seun Kuti
11 Jan 2012 at 4:30 pm
Intellectual Property Propaganda
3 Feb 2012 at 1:56 pm
The Next Pope: Another African?
12 Feb 2013 at 3:00 am
