The BBC’s standards when it comes to South Africa
Western media’s repetitive focus on white South Africans distorts reality, ignoring data on poverty and crime disproportionately affecting black citizens, fueling a misleading, provocative narrative.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The unfounded fears of a Zulu hegemony
The hysteria around developing isiZulu and the country’s other indigenous languages for use in higher education.
The Real Housewives of Harare
It’s election season in Zimbabwe, and so, as before, the State has engaged in 'urban renewal’
Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country’s present.
Enough is enough
Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
Weekend Music Break, N°42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYvyZBmN3s Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass (the Mozambican-Portuguese-Ghanaian-German duo who go by the name of Gato
The Cartography of Bullshit
The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.
How to Please Your Man “Zambia Style”
A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what “liberated, spoiled, but also insecure” Western women can learn from their African counterparts.
5 New Films to Watch Out For, N°27
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the creative debut feature of director Terence Nance who we
Football Referee of the Year
My knowledge of European club football doesn't stretch much further beyond what gets posted here on
The Minister of Earth and Sky
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president’s son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
Aristide Zolberg and African Studies
A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.
Did Britain’s MI6 put a hit on Lumumba?
When a member of the UK’s House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she’d organized Lumumba’s abduction and murder.
Weekend Music Break, N°42
Many collaborations and surprise comebacks popped up in our feeds this week. First, this one by
Africana Endless Summer Series in Washington, DC
It’s starting to get sticky in Washington DC and that means it’s time for music to
5 New Films to Watch, N°26
Kicking off this week and running until the 26th of May, the fifth edition of Festival
Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?
People in glass houses
South Africa’s news media’s much vaunted editorial independence.
Grime’s Deepest Darkest Africa
Not sure what is empowering about a UK grime artist explicitly glorifying African conflict and capitalizing on the fear and violence that it entails.
An African inspired fantasy world
Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.