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
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Literary Sudans
The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans,” is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.
Ghana’s elections: Back to the future
Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.
The artist as citizen
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.”
Bar Ethiopia, Milan
Before it closed, Bar Etiopia had been running for ten years by the graceful Abeba. It
Law and Order
The United States’ star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.
Africa and the Biennial: Regard Benin
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,”
Gaborone is not a bore
It might not be Dakar or Nairobi, but Gaborone certainly does not look empty.
Should Mohamed Morsi be TIME’s Person of the Year?
Last week, as he made a bid to become Egypt's latest dictator, plunging the country into
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mkrhoILrK0 Azonto and its growing global reaches... Somebody should write a book about it. 'Tribal Azonto'
The Joyce Banda Malawians know
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.
Cape Town needs a visit from Anthony Bourdain
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
Film as Allegory
The thirteenth regular list of new films with African themes; it includes a number of films made exclusively for online consumption.
Why does South African history continue to be written primarily by white scholars?
The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.
My favorite photographs: Candace Feit
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.
The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
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.
Hope Floats
The Globe and Mail’s opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans’ concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
When The Sartorialist went to Johannesburg
In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some “Fashion Week,” but on the street.
Jonas Savimbi is a video game star
No surprise that the dead Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, is a video game character; in life he was a media mastermind.