Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while--long before mainstream media caught onto it--that
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Europe’s Apartheid
In a recent interview on French television to promote his new book “Sortir de la Grande
Uncle Wole’s Party
Last month Johannesburg filmmaker Akin Omotoso, who directed a documentary about Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can't say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu's first novel, "The Beautiful Things
The anti-politics machine
James Scott: “the majority of article publishing [in academia] is … put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles.”
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDg6pBMlsI4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It's no secret that I am a big fan of the Noisettes and their singer and bassist, Shingai
'The Janitor'
When the Johannesburg Art Gallery bought one of Mr. [Gerard] Sekoto's paintings in 1940, they had
‘The Blood Diamond Myth’
It would be interesting to hear people's opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
In My Country
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKLxfP3xju0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Since we're on the topic of Cote d'Ivoire, here's Ivoirian veteran underground rapper Manusa's "Dans
Gbagbo's Elections
It's been 10 years since Cote d'Ivoire's presidential elections; "... a whole lost generation since the
The Comedy Hour
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVawARS2oCQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Later today (starting around noon) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert--both mainstream liberal comedians, media critics
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”
Photo: Eileen Perrier
From Eileen Perrier's "Red, Gold and Green" Series (1996).
Jimmy Mubenga is Dead
Dan Moshenberg, Guest Blogger Jimmy Mubenga came to England seeking asylum, seeking life. According to his
Children of Kinshasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtE2sTIS9z4 If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you
Baloji Live
[vodpod id=Video.4686469&w=500&h=411&fv=] Last week, Baloji played at Les Nuits Zébrées (Montpellier, France). Arte was there too.
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Though "Blessa," the latest single from the Carolina singer Toro Y Moi ((government name: Chad Bundick) is
The supermodel’s revenge
Charles Taylor’s trial at the International Criminal Court is verging on the trivial.
The Sierra Leone Show
Vickie Remoe has expanded Sierra Leone’s presence on the web beyond the views of expatriates in the country.
Size Matters
Apparently it matters. (Click on the link to see full size.) And Africa gets compared to