AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

Wikileaks

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The Meme Edition

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Monday, May 9th, 2011

Africa’s media considered

By Elliot Ross, Guest Blogger We don’t give Africa a pass just because we are Africans. It’s a mistake to respond to blanket negative coverage with blanket positive coverage. Africa is overexposed not underexposed. We just get...

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

‘The Ultimate Show of Power’

The ultimate show of power on the part of the ruling ideology is to allow what appears to be powerful criticism. There is no lack of anti-capitalism today. We are overloaded with critiques of the horrors of...

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Wikileaks to the Left

I like Naijablog’s take–writing from the vantage point of Nigeria–on Wikileaks: … the cables remind us that no matter what we might know, we are apparently powerless to stop it. The odd thing is: in the act of...

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Gaddafi’s voluptuous Ukranian nurse

1. Anyone who has done any kind of archival research will know immediately the use of the WikiLeaks cables, and also their limits. Now that the superficial and the obvious are out of the way, the truly...