Keep Africa Alive
Should our contributor Sonja Sugira, usually a harsh critic of humanitarianism, cut Bono’s RED campaign some slack?
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Nick Kristof promotes the missionary position
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times columnist who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time. No word about the larger structures causing their misery in the first place.
Sunday Morning
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Bono did something right
You know we give Bono a lot of grief on this site, but in this commercial
'Something to Believe'
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/9002801 w=500&h=281] Rapper Blitz the Ambassador (representing for the Ghanaian diaspora and Brooklyn), featuring Tess, who
Rainer Elstermanns' "Photo Studio"
[slideshow] The German photographer, Rainer Elstermanns, imagined an old photo studio set in rural Kenya in
The Guardian of Malawi
If you find yourself at a cocktail party this weekend where you may be required to
'Symbols of Liberia's Struggle'*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOvI9bvruQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Nas narrates a short insert on ESPN's "E:60" on the Liberian national amputee team
Fresh hiphop funk from Cameroon
[youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWUEvngFue8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Via Mustafa Maluka
Vroom. Vroom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhrgnCAydu4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Your parents' Congolese music--like it needs the jolt--gets the dance music treatment from the kids,
The Nigerian senator and his 13 year old bride
Apart from the Nigerian media and a BBC story this has not had much traction. It
Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee’s novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, ‘Disgrace.’
The Emperor has no clothes
How do we make sense of the current direction of the ANC, described yesterday by Archbishop
The Unofficial World Cup Song?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_Ew6zsnDY&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Is this playful ode to coloured identity,* becoming the unofficial World Cup anthem? Apparently South
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.
Flavor of the Month
The UK Observer, despite its best attempts, does not have its finger on the pulse of the South African literary scene. The World Cup didn’t help.
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Goal!
The cover of the May issue of the Spanish edition of Esquire gets into the World
Photography: 'New Men'
[slideshow] From new work by Cape Town-based photographer Araminta de Clarmont. A photo series on ikrwala
Africa, Now With Internet
Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?