Weedie Braimah and Amadou Kouyate’s Blends
Guest Post by Robert Nathan They're not your average musicians. Sons of West African griots and
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
Rap Comes Home
It's quite a weekend for New York's prodigal child. Hip-Hop, that burst of youthful energy that was
Counting bodies and column inches
The Pistorius’ murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.
Marcus Garvey’s Africa
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey’s influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
Conveying raw feelings about everyday activities
The Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki, picks her five favorite photographs and shares some words about how and where the images were made.
Kenya is More than its Election
The Kenyan people have voted. The Kenyan elections have come and not quite gone. The foreign
Searching for Redemption
In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Rodriguez the man feels more like an awkward prop in a story of white redemption rather than the star of his own movie.
Swag, Swag, #Swag
I have been a little silent lately here on AIAC. I'm gonna start posting more, although
Have a Nice Trip
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.
Vice and Albinos in Tanzania
Vice.com’s reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.
Oil in the Angolan President’s Family
We ought to ask questions about Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. But also about the history of Chevron, Exxon, and Conoco in the country.
Africa is a Country TV is back: We interview Kenyan supergroup Just a Band
Apart from seeing our logo superimposed on a building in downtown Johannesburg, this is a good
How not to report on Kenya’s elections
Reporting ahead of Kenya’s election by the international media can basically be placed in two general categories: optimism and, of course, no surprise, pessimism.
Big Weekend for Jason Russell
There is nothing heroic about running a cushy, big-spending non-profit like Invisible Children that works hand-in-glove with the CIA and the US military.
Weekend Music Break, N°34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t8Z_K8crWo Pretty much all of this week's artist are regular guests on the blog. First up:
So, has the media gotten anything right reporting the Pistorius murder case?
We’ve blogged here about what’s been wrong about the coverage of the murder of the relatively
Woman, object, corpse: Killing women through media
Since Valentine’s Day everyone has been talking about the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, although rarely in
The media’s culture of confirmation bias
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
There are no laws against photography
The latest in a series of interviews by Roxsanne Dyssel. This time, with Egyptian photographer and blogger, Mohamed Elshahed.