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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

In Praise of Wangari Maathai
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.

Law and Disorder
“Law and Order,” opened its 13th season with a very transparent plot based on the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case. It is not very good.

Muslim American Slave
Islam first came to North America with slavery, yet no major studio film has centered on the life of a Muslim American slave. Ibn Said’s remarkable life could be a start.

Outsourcing Protest
You fill out a form on a Dutch NGO’s website and it “gets a bunch of Africans to protest for you.” It is not a joke.

Liberator Magazine
Music Break / Kern Koppen

The "colorful" women of Karamoja

Today I'll eat for Belgium

Karl Marx Was Right
The mainstream is waking to the prescience of the old man’s ideas.
Music Break / Kastra

Didier Drogba, Truth Commissioner
Cote d’Ivoire’s newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country’s diaspora.
From Nairobi to Berlin

National Pride
Cote d’Ivoire is Africa’s best team at the moment. FIFA says so. Egypt, the current African champions, are second.
'Slavery, The Game'
"Making French money isn't easy"
Blitz The Ambassador Speaks
Music Break / Shabazz Palaces
