Ghana’s President and what the West wants to hear
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France’s presence, as somehow radical.
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Dennis Laumann
Dennis Laumann is Professor of African History at The University of Memphis.
The first genocide of the 20th century
The language, methods, and scale of the Herero genocide remain shocking even in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust.
Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
Sympathy for the ‘Devil’
A New York Times article that’s respectful and mostly accurate, including the use of terminology, when covering African Traditional Religion.
The media caricature of Hugo Chávez
A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.
Why does the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
It’s 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.
Six lessons from Ghana’s 2012 elections
Here’s on lesson from Ghana’s 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana
Ghana’s elections: Back to the future
Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.