
Who will get rich
The fantasy that local people - small businesspeople, informal traders, especially black people - will make money or get jobs during the 2010 World Cup.
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Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

The fantasy that local people - small businesspeople, informal traders, especially black people - will make money or get jobs during the 2010 World Cup.

What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.

What is it about Congolese men who dress up in tropical weather like they're on a catwalk in Paris sometime in late Fall?

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.

Don't expect "Invictus" to break from the "rainbow nation" narrative despite that symbolism's sell buy date having long expired.

A TV news anchor confuses Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton. Then blames the teleprompter. This is journalism.

Mo Ibrahim can't find a suitable candidate for the good governance award he hands out to the best former African leader once a year.

Botswana's been governed by the same party since independence in 1966. There's no crisis of democracy in Botswana.

A busy week means a lot of stuff gets the speed blog treatment. Among others, the African country that gets the worst treatment in US media.

This story of Harvard political scientist, Robert Rotberg, and Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, falling out, is quite something.

The popular Australian show, "Hey Hey It's Saturday Night!," on Channel 9, thought it would be okay to revive blackface.

For someone who knows music, not sure why Ghostface Killah thought Vampire Weekend is riding a Jamaican riddim in the very popular song, 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.'

What came across as recognition of Africa Is a Country from a US State Department official, was more a case of speaking too fast.
Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.

How Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's Life President since 1980, bested CNN's Christiane Amampour.

This is another Weekend Special post: compiling news and links we didn't have time to focus on in the last week.

It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.

The mixing of popular protest and music in protests over electricity cuts in Senegal.

So as usual, a bunch of links—new as well as ones—that have piled up in my bookmarks folder. It's Weekend Special.

Surely Jesse Jackson did some basic research on Laurent Gbagbo's rightwing identity politics before accepting an invitation from his supporters?