"We’re Cool Like That"
Last week I got an email from a reader, Sojourner Ahebee , 14 years old, originally
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
Has Nandos lost the plot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaUcmdisfo The South African fast food chicken chain Nando's (which has of late also become very
Africa on Film: Tarzan!
Few other authors in the 19th and 20th centuries made greater contributions to Hollywood’s racist images
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aHkRx1IKlOg&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Ice Cube was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week. Of course to
The Stories We Tell About Africa
Chris Abani’s musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters “Africa” every day, and then attempt to write about it.
Tell ’em to skate
The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.
Made in China
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-a_rDH9c8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The football will be great, we'll talk tactics and football history all month long, make
Vamos a ir a Sudafrica
Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
Blue Balls
Last Saturday, a rugby playoff match in South Africa was switched from the white suburbs of
The only appropriate response now is silence
Lara Pawson’s blog post about the way elites and media in the West talk, write and act about the African continent and its people, though hardly to them, is worth reposting here.
No politics please
[slideshow] South African corporates has always been on the side of right. Literally. Take this recent
Animal Kingdom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfsM4yBZps&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes
It must be Africa
For the next month we’ll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There’ll be lots of “African” themes.
From Now On*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_HP8mgT8A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for Dutch hip hop group Zwart Licht's single "Vanaf Nu." Via @Mustafa Maluka:
After the Bulldozers
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11738776 w=500&h=281] Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving
Africa on Film: A New Series
We also aim to educate. Over the next few months, Allison Swank will commence a new
Rihanna: Back in Blackface?
In the music video for her latest single, “Rockstar 101,” singer Rihanna appears in what looks like blackface.
The Wedding
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsG49zXF8xk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Driving in Soweto, film maker Dumisani Phakathi reflects on next month's World Cup: [The World
Coco Cola and the "African Boy"
I'm a bit late with this, but I'll post it anyway. (Look out for lots of
The Encyclopedia of South Africa
One of the first authoritative, comprehensive reference work covering South Africa’s history, politics, law, society and culture, economy, environment, in one place.