Mozambique’s mid-life crisis
After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?
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When the war is over
In his new book, the Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani argues that breaking cycles of violence requires collective action. He finds hope in the unfinished project of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle.
Do Ghanaians ‘still believe’ in Kurt Okraku?
Under the leadership of the president of the Ghana Football Association, the country’s football has become a study in contradiction, combining administrative modernization with competitive decline.
Africa as Science Fiction
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
Madlib’s Radio Freedom
Madlib's "Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa" is about African liberation in the 1970s, especially south of the Limpopo.
The Celebrity Scramble for Africa
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.
Okonjo-Wahala
Nigeria's very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She's the "African Renaissance" candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?
Africa’s media considered
What is the state of the media in Africa? And how is it dealing with perhaps the biggest emerging story continent-wide, the rise of the extractive sector?
It is the time for summer lists
A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.
World Cup Diary 2010: The noisiest World Cup ever
I am in South Africa for two weeks to go to a few matches and soak up the atmosphere of the 2010 World Cup. I'll try to keep a diary.
Johannesburg’s Media World Cup
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.
First as tragedy, then as farce
South Africa prematurely celebrating qualification to the 2012 African Cup of Nations championship is another case of history repeating itself when it comes to the administration of football in the country.
