'The Kenya I Live In'
This December 2010, Kenyan literary magazine, "Kwani?" will publish the top five entries of their "The
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Music Break
Hotep Idris Galeta, the South African jazz pianist, who died last Friday in Johannesburg (of an
Janka in America
The King of Bubu, Janka Nabay, translates this music and his culture for rock kids in the trendy hangouts of New York City.
Music Break
If you're into house music (I can tolerate some of it) it's worth listening to this
Model Media
A few weeks ago blogger Oly Orollah (of Kenyan Pundit) posted this on developments in Mozambique's
Viva Tanzania
For all the gross, lurid news stories or the films you see about fatal violence against,
Searching for a ‘blood-diamond bazaar’
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
‘Where was Mandela between 1964 and 1990?’
The American (celebrity) writer Kitty Kelley' on writing an "unauthorized biography" of Nelson Mandela: For the
Wade's Country
The present situation in Senegal is at a decisive turning point in its history. We have,
Bloody Agent*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAibpGHesg4 We know Jacob Zuma can dance. But can Julius Malema, the future President of South
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while--long before mainstream media caught onto it--that
Europe’s Apartheid
In a recent interview on French television to promote his new book “Sortir de la Grande
Uncle Wole’s Party
Last month Johannesburg filmmaker Akin Omotoso, who directed a documentary about Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can't say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu's first novel, "The Beautiful Things
The anti-politics machine
James Scott: “the majority of article publishing [in academia] is … put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles.”
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDg6pBMlsI4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It's no secret that I am a big fan of the Noisettes and their singer and bassist, Shingai
'The Janitor'
When the Johannesburg Art Gallery bought one of Mr. [Gerard] Sekoto's paintings in 1940, they had
‘The Blood Diamond Myth’
It would be interesting to hear people's opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
In My Country
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKLxfP3xju0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Since we're on the topic of Cote d'Ivoire, here's Ivoirian veteran underground rapper Manusa's "Dans
Gbagbo's Elections
It's been 10 years since Cote d'Ivoire's presidential elections; "... a whole lost generation since the