The Blue Kenyan
We may not all love Chelsea Football Club (John Terry, their klepto-petro-billionaire owner, John Terry, the
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The Western Journalist in Africa
The question for Western journalists is this – when it comes to Africa, why do you not tell the whole story of the humanity at work even in times of extreme violence?
Zimbabwean Activist Jestina Mukoko ‘Released’
On Sunday, Jestina Mukoko, Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was ‘released’ from prison. Her
The media caricature of Hugo Chávez
A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.
Dirk Coetzee is Dead
The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
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.
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Vice.com's reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.
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.
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.
The individual vs the cause
The enduring controversies around Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy.
Edward Echwalu’s Favorite Photographs
The Ugandan photographer: "It gets even more complicated being a photojournalist in Africa feeding foreign channels with African events."
Nigeria’s National Anthem
Did Goodluck Jonathan allegedly take US $1m from an anti-poverty fund to allegedly bring Beyonce and Jay-Z to Nigeria in 2006?
Blackface is Okay on Peruvian TV
The shows play on the worst stereotypes associated with Afro-Peruvians and uncritically exhibits these for the whole Peruvian nation to watch.
In Memory of Anene Booysen
Guest Post by Melinda Fantou The road that leads to Bredasdorp, a small town about 180
The Book of Marikana
Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.
There’s “too much Africa in South Africa”
That what a Dutch writer Adriaan Van Dis told an Italian newspaper when asked about what South Africa is like now.
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
Ramphele has never enjoyed widespread grassroots support as a political figure in South Africa and hasn't been in active in any political movement for at least 30 years now.