A bloody scandal in Mali
Mali can't guarantee its citizens that it will protect them.
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The Archive of Malian Photography
Preserving the photographs of five Malian photographers - including Mamadou Cissé and Malick Sidibé - online.
Uptown griots
Malians started arriving in New York City in the 1980s, numbering about 8,000 now. They also brought their music.
Ousmane Sembene invented a new cinema for Africa
An interview with Samba Gadjigo, the late Ousmane Sembene’s longtime friend and official biographer about the resurgence of Sembene’s work.
Can the Malians Speak
It has become customary to discuss Mali while simultaneously ignoring Mali.
A beautiful vision of resistance
"Timbuktu," the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.
Purely as artifacts
Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.
Mali and Manhattan
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?
How was Africa?
An American graduate student consciously attempts to preempt some of the problematic and ignorant queries from relatives back home.
How a coup d’état drove a scholar to social media
Call me a curmudgeon, but I had never really understood the value of social media. I
Africa is not a country
We must stop thinking that 'Africa’ must either progress together or stagnate. Each country has its own story, its own sovereignty.
When Nelson Mandela had an Ethiopian Passport
In April 1962, Mandela traveled on an Ethiopian passport in the name of David Motsomayi. He visited Morocco, Algeria, and Mali.
Mali’s Elections: First Thoughts on Round Two
It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.
While we wait for election results in Mali
Here's a selection of articles that go the extra mile and poke holes in the narrow frame of the "Malian crisis."
Malians educating Malians
SOS Democracy wants to raise voter turnout, educate them on their choices and hold the candidates and government accountable to voters.
The New Yorker Goes to Mali
I do know a bit about Mali, but I hardly recognize The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson’s version of it.
Why France doesn’t want to let Aminata Traoré in and Germany allowed her only inside Berlin’s city limits
Malian writer, activist, former member of government Aminata Traoré is unwelcome in France, and, thanks to
Welcome to Mali
France's intervention never offered a real solution to any of Mali's problems, but created a set of problems to the ones this country would otherwise have faced.
Mali Needs Heroes–Even Cinematic Ones will do
Ibrahima Touré’s feature film adaptation of Ly’s powerful novel, "Toiles d’araignées" (Spiders’ webs) may be what Mali needs now.
Rap Comes Home
It’s quite a weekend for New York’s prodigal child. Hip-Hop, that burst of youthful energy that was