Summer Reading List
What are some Africa Is a Country editors and contributors reading during their northern hemisphere summer break?
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama’s energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
Whose “new African writing”?
Finding more multilingual literary pathways will benefit all of African—and world—literatures.
An environmental calamity
The South African photographer Gideon Mendel’s images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.
Weekend Music Break 44
Here's your weekly round-up of new videos and tunes to get the weekend started. First up,
Autonomy in Barcelona
The story of the Mount Zion community, largely made up of West African men collecting scrap metal all over Barcelona.
A history of violence
This is the second in a 3 part series of posts on sexual violence against women, focuses on the campaign strategies of groups led by men who fight gender-based violence.
The ZAM Chronicle: an online investigative magazine on and from Africa
This month sees the launch of The ZAM Chronicle, a new monthly online investigative magazine with
The responsibility of media to women
Most men in South Africa share the same ideas about manhood that fuel assaults against women. The media should keep the spotlight on that.
The infamous Cape Town hospitality
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
Angola’s Biennale
It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.
After Mandela
Nelson Mandela would recognize himself in young protesters for whom freedom has been postponed and view South Africa’s government as an obstacle.
Jogo Bonito
Preparations for the 2014 World Cup have served as a trigger for what may become a major political and social movement in Brazil.
Rick Ross is a Country
Rick Ross has since deleted a tweet about landing “in the beautiful country of Africa.” He deserved all the scorn. He’s been to three African countries already and should know.
Actual questions from a South African journalist
The long-held and widespread attitudes some South African journalists share about the struggle for liberation.
Tuleka Prah’s African Food Map
The genesis of the idea was simple and uncomplicated. I was looking for a recipe online
The left winger
A meditation on left footed footballers, especially wingers, given the conventional wisdom that lefties are always useful to have in a match.
A Senegalese Citizen
Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.
Weekend Music Break, N°43
It’s been far too long since we had a music break. So without too many words,
Luanda Can Cook
In a rapidly changing city like Luanda, it is important to be able to catalogue all of its eating establishment, or at least those that our wallets and stomachs allow.