Ben Affleck makes the Congo cool
In what has little to do with the DRC, Affleck, dubbed Life President of Congo, gets hailed as "Hollywood’s New Role Model" and the "new paradigm of masculinity" in the entertainment world.
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Sean Henry Jacobs
Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa Is a Country. He currently edits the Eleven Named People newsletter.
When Bob Marley went to Africa
Bob Marley was deeply shaped by his relationship to Africa — through faith, music, and Pan-African politics — visiting Kenya, Ethiopia, and Gabon. This relationship was marked by contradictions.
Ronald Reagan’s Africa
Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.
African Lookbook
This website thinks it can combine ideas about Africa with shopping. Sean Jacobs interviewed one of the founders of African Lookbook, Aaron Kohn.
Futbol Is a Country
We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.
My Subjective List of The Best Albums of 2012
In any case, here's 10 albums I liked this year; in no particular order. It includes Alabama Shakes, Isaac Mutant, Kendrick Lamar and Bruce Springsteen.
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.
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.