You won’t see or hear a more exciting song by a South African rapper this year than Kanyi’s ‘Ingoma’. Produced by Mananz, with Teboho Semela (sister of Ben Sharpa) on violin. From Gugulethu, Cape Town: About these ads
‘Nigeria’s own Donald Trump’
September 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
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 representatives (I spotted Julius Malema and Paul Kagame in the series promo). At the same time the interviewers […]
Typecasting Binyavanga Wainaina
September 9, 2011 By 6 Comments
By Caitlin Chandler How do you write about a place that occupies a mythic place in the imagination of outsiders? And how do you write about national and personal identity when identity does not obey the neat idea of nation states and borders? American novelist William Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional Southern community, wrapping […]
Slo-mo better than No-mo
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
July 1, Burundi, Rwanda and Somalia
July 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Rwandan Glass Ceiling
June 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
The second instalment of Dan Moshenberg’s weekly posts (his first here) on that place where gender, Africa and media collide.–Sean Jacobs By Dan Moshenberg Let’s talk about Rwandan women. Last Friday, June 24, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko and her son Arsene Ntahobali, were found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including multiple rapes of […]
Newt Gingrich goes to Africa
June 5, 2011 By 6 Comments
The films of Kivu Ruhorahoza
May 7, 2011 By 7 Comments
The Tribeca Film Festival ended last weekend. I didn’t get to see any films. (Late April, early May is a busy time where I teach). Anyway, a quick glance at the 2011 schedule shows only four films with African themes. Two “from South Africa,” one from Egypt (made by Americans and Europeans) and one by […]
‘Making Rwanda a more tragic place than it needs to be’
April 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 in 1994, or what’s happening now. We’ve learned the wrong lesson from the organised massacre of 800,000 people, […]
‘The Media-Savvy Autocrat’
April 3, 2011 By 3 Comments
Adam Hochschild, in the New York Times Book Review, writing about Jason K Stearns’ new book, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa: Stearns is somewhat easier on Rwanda here than he has been elsewhere, for example, in a United Nations report he contributed to. […]
