The Comedy Hour
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVawARS2oCQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Later today (starting around noon) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert--both mainstream liberal comedians, media critics
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”
Photo: Eileen Perrier
From Eileen Perrier's "Red, Gold and Green" Series (1996).
Jimmy Mubenga is Dead
Dan Moshenberg, Guest Blogger Jimmy Mubenga came to England seeking asylum, seeking life. According to his
Children of Kinshasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtE2sTIS9z4 If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you
Baloji Live
[vodpod id=Video.4686469&w=500&h=411&fv=] Last week, Baloji played at Les Nuits Zébrées (Montpellier, France). Arte was there too.
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Though "Blessa," the latest single from the Carolina singer Toro Y Moi ((government name: Chad Bundick) is
The supermodel’s revenge
Charles Taylor’s trial at the International Criminal Court is verging on the trivial.
The Sierra Leone Show
Vickie Remoe has expanded Sierra Leone’s presence on the web beyond the views of expatriates in the country.
Size Matters
Apparently it matters. (Click on the link to see full size.) And Africa gets compared to
They Shoot Tamikrest
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuHW3X5QKzY&w=500&h=300&rel=0] "I well remember hearing my first Tinariwen songs. I was about five. After the death
A familiar narrative about Madagascar
As part of our series on how Western filmmakers portray African countries and people, a piece on the children’s film, “Madagascar.”
Friday Links
Apparently President Lyndon Johnson, known for his support of Rhodesia (and paradoxically for signing the Civil
City One Minutes
When sleepless I often find myself browsing through time and space, moving from Johannesburg's CBD to
Krusty the Clown's Activism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OoeAeZM5Q&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The opening episode of the new series of "The Simpsons" features a convoluted plotline where
Desmond Tutu embarks on a life of well-earned dotage
The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town is one of South Africa’s great moral leaders.
Die Antwoord is Badass
Die Antwoord’s magnetism (or repulsion) lies in the way they combine clichés about race with those of gender and sexuality.
Cricket is big in Nigeria
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
Black Atlantic Identity Politics
Two years later, Barack Obama’s election as US President still influence cultural production on the continent.
The Truth Will Out
The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.