G'day Mate
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how
Politics
Stuff White People Do
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
Time and Time again
Alex Perry's work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that's allowed when you write about Africa.
Hold On To Your Hat
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL3tRBZv7QA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African football fans (well, boosted by corporates) have brought the world the plastic vuvuzelas.
The Daily Show takes on the World Cup
[vodpod id=Video.3900482&w=450&h=370&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] The Daily Show with Jon Stewart sends “correspondent” John Oliver to Johannesburg to learn
South America's World Cup
All five of the South American representatives in the 2010 World Cup have made it to
Organize
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBlDiObxWA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] BLK JKS representing at the official pre-World Cup concert in Soweto. Remember Tutu dancing in
'Welcome to South Africa'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYrSn3pL8Ws&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It’s hard to describe the vibe here. Yes, there’s the unreasonable expectations around the team
ESPN observes Youth Day
I went to ESPN’s website to check WC scores and was surprised to find two short
A new scheme to end poverty
This is so cynical: let people in poor countries send money to nonprofits in rich countries.
Day 2 and 3 Ear Plugs
After watching Bafana Bafana’s close shave against Mexico on TV, my brother, David, and I went
Africa really is a country
While everybody back home in South Africa today celebrated Vuvuzela Day, the rest of us had
Has Nandos lost the plot?
The South African fast food chicken chain Nando’s (which has of late also become very popular
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Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
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.
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
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