
It must be Africa
For the next month we’ll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There’ll be lots of “African” themes.
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.

For the next month we’ll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There’ll be lots of “African” themes.


In the music video for her latest single, “Rockstar 101,” singer Rihanna appears in what looks like blackface.


Should our contributor Sonja Sugira, usually a harsh critic of humanitarianism, cut Bono’s RED campaign some slack?

Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times columnist who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time. No word about the larger structures causing their misery in the first place.
