The Truth Will Out
The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.
Politics
Out of Africa Redux
Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.
Ask Your Government
How transparent are African governments about how and where they spend tax money?
How democracy is lived
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.
Traffic Report
Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.
Ivorian independence
Côte d'Ivoire is turning 50 — it became independent on August 7, 1960 — and my Ivorian friend doesn't feel eager to celebrate.
Congo: The benefit of the doubt has expired
Anyone who knows anything about Cold War politics, knows the CIA had a hand in Lumumba's murder. The only difference now is that it's been proven.
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.
World Cup Diary 2010: South America’s World Cup?
On the field, Africa’s World Cup has disappointed: Nigeria faltered, South Africa and Algeria couldn’t finish, Côte d’Ivoire were unlucky, and Cameroon underwhelmed.
World Cup Diary 2010: Plastic Horns
Researchers claim to have found evidence that vuvuzelas can lead to permanent hearing damage. But it won't stop the "tradition." Neither will FIFA
A new scheme to end poverty
This is so cynical: let people in poor countries send money to nonprofits in rich countries.
The Nandos Plot
The chicken fast-food chain’s latest television commercial, riffing on the World Cup, satirizes stereotypical Africa yet risks reproducing the very tropes it mocks instead.
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Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.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.
Coca Cola Boy
Commercials tied to the 2010 World Cup sell brands through a tired global template of African-ness: poverty as texture, hardship as atmosphere, resilience as spectacle.