
Foreign Correspondents and False Notes
Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.

The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans,” is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.

Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.

An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”


The United States’ star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.

It might not be Dakar or Nairobi, but Gaborone certainly does not look empty.

It is becoming apparent that Malawian presidents have one image for the world and a separate one, mostly negative, for the people who actually voted them into power.

Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.

The thirteenth regular list of new films with African themes; it includes a number of films made exclusively for online consumption.

The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.

Feit, an American photographer, makes portraits or takes pictures of things she finds interesting and that aren’t really applicable to an assignment she’s on.

Discussions of the “shifting disease burden” fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.

The Globe and Mail’s opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.

Black South Africans’ concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.

In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some “Fashion Week,” but on the street.

No surprise that the dead Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, is a video game character; in life he was a media mastermind.