Telling “the African story”
We often hear political and business leaders and Africanists talk about the need to "tell the African
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There are apparently only three people in the world that can cook pasta like Wole Soyinka
Soyinka turned 80 this year. We learn this in an interview a Nigerian newspaper did with his
Thank You, Associated Press
We published "Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey" (to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil) on
Africa is a Radio: Episode #4 – World Cup Special!
We're shortening the name of Africa is a Country Radio. From now on (save for when we slip
The World of Ridiculous Youtube Music Videos: First Bangs, then Ice JJ Fish, Kwality, now Berenice
Singing or rapping off key in an expensive or sometime low budget music video is now
An African team in the World Cup semi-finals?
African champions, Nigeria, go into the 2014 World Cup with the best chance of making a big impression.
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #3
Episode 3 of Africa is a Country Radio is live on Groovalizacion and the AIAC Mixcloud
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #2
Just in time for the weekend, episode 2 of Africa is a Country Radio is here! (It went
A Rwandan Storify
The sensational tale of Rwanda’s gospel-singer-terrorist, Kizito Mihigo.
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment – gets mocked on Twitter – for his government’s inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
Nene Leakes’ ‘African tribal dance’
"He said, 'Hunni nobody can do this, you're the only person here who can do this. You're always the queen bee, and fabulous, and over the top, so there's nobody else here who can do an African tribal dance. You're the only black girl here.' I thought that was creative and awesome and I was like whaaaat?! I've only been to Africa one time I don't know what they do over there, but let's try it!"
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #1
Listen to Africa is a Country Radio every month on Groovalizacion. March's episode was the first
The Slave Ship Theme
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons.
Private: Sunday night on Twitter with Binyavanga Wainaina
We sometimes joke that often when we're online the only other person who's consistently awake and on Twitter (no matter where he is in the world) is Binyavanga Wainaina. It's like, if you blink, you miss out on some pronouncement by him. Though he has been an active social media user for a while now, it was after he came out on January 18th, that he has gone into overdrive. And you can't look away. No one else we know, talking about Africans and their relations to the West (not on Western terms), is in such blistering form right now. Take Sunday night when--from a hotel balcony in Dakar; he was in town to give a lecture--he just went in
Africa is a Country Radio
On Groovalizacion. The host is Chief Boima, from his new base in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (check out his first post from there). The format is a monthly round up of audio treats from around Africa and its diaspora with occasional commentary from the community of writers from Africasacountry.com. The first episode went out this afternoon.
The “wisdoms” of Akon
When the Senegalese-American singer Akon is not claiming to provide electricity around the continent, he gives interviews. The latest, to Larry King, is a train wreck because of Akon’s reactionary’s views. For those in the know, this is peak Akon.