Day 2 and 3 Ear Plugs
After watching Bafana Bafana's close shave against Mexico on TV, my brother, David, and I went
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Day One: Butterfly Nation
I am in South Africa for two weeks to see some games and soak up the atmosphere of the 2010 World Cup. I hope to keep a diary of sorts.
Africa really is a country
While everybody back home in South Africa today celebrated Vuvuzela Day, the rest of us had
On Safari
By the time you read this I'll be on my way to Cape Town, via Amsterdam.
Africa is a Country’s Twitter World Cup
You can follow us as well as some of our writers – particularly Sonja, Sean and Herman – on Twitter.
Not Julius Malema's Youth League
[slideshow] I've blogged before (at my old blog address) about the Johannesburg fashion movement, The Smarteez.
Madonna: International Human Rights Defender
The breathless reporting of Madonna’s various doings in Africa, including when she is given credit for things she didn’t even do, should stop.
Iman is fierce
The achievements of the Somali model and designer, Iman, in a very racist fashion industry, particularly Paris and New York, should be widely celebrated.
"We’re Cool Like That"
Last week I got an email from a reader, Sojourner Ahebee , 14 years old, originally
Has Nandos lost the plot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaUcmdisfo The South African fast food chicken chain Nando's (which has of late also become very
Africa on Film: Tarzan!
Few other authors in the 19th and 20th centuries made greater contributions to Hollywood’s racist images
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aHkRx1IKlOg&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Ice Cube was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week. Of course to
The Stories We Tell About Africa
Chris Abani’s musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters “Africa” every day, and then attempt to write about it.
Tell ’em to skate
The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.
Made in China
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-a_rDH9c8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The football will be great, we'll talk tactics and football history all month long, make
Vamos a ir a Sudafrica
Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
Blue Balls
Last Saturday, a rugby playoff match in South Africa was switched from the white suburbs of
The only appropriate response now is silence
Lara Pawson’s blog post about the way elites and media in the West talk, write and act about the African continent and its people, though hardly to them, is worth reposting here.
No politics please
[slideshow] South African corporates has always been on the side of right. Literally. Take this recent
Animal Kingdom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfsM4yBZps&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes