• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Herman Wasserman

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.

• Sonja Sugira

Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.

• Lara Pawson

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time.

• Allison Swank

Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.

• Sonja Sugira

The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.

• Sonja Sugira

When Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.

• Sonja Sugira

Researchers find Europeans and Asians share 1% to 4% of their nuclear DNA with Neandertals. But Africans do not. What to do with this information?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Coca-Cola’s ad trivializes Cameroon’s 1990 World Cup breakthrough, ignoring its transformative global impact.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. — whom I first met in 1995 and often joke is “always right” — on what political economy means for cultural studies.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The contrast between Argentina, where military officials from the dictatorship are still jailed for crimes, while in South Africa apartheid's leaders received amnesty, pensions, and privilege.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's little depth in Tyler Perry’s films or characters, and he may not serve Black community, but his financial success and large Black working-class following is undeniable.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A new website, "Islam in Africa," claims to be a scholarly. On closer inspection, it turns out to be run of the mill Zionist propaganda.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The 1884 and 1885 meetings in Berlin of Euro-American powers to divide up the riches and territories of Africa are being reprised. By and for celebrities.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Julius Malema is equally a creation of the ANC and the South Africa's media. He is, however, the ANC's responsibility. How long it will take before ANC leaders kick him out?