The good Senegalese woman
Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.
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The loneliness of the Kenyan long distance runner
How the death of a very talented Kenyan marathon runner points to structural problems in the country's national running industry.
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.
10 films to watch out for, N°10
…of Lemon”), is “set in 1972, in a season of hot political turmoil that started the
Development always comes with a political agenda
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
Foreign Correspondents and False Notes
Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.
The artist as citizen
An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
The new “Celebrity Map of Africa”
It's not just Euro-Americans who want to save Africa. Celebrities and entertainers from Asia and Eastern Europe want in too.
Not an African Christmas
If the image of the starving black child has been deemed obsolete, then so has the Western “we” that claimed so much power for itself in the late 1980s.
Our African Cup of Nations 2013 predictions
…Prediction: Group Stage exit Ethiopia | The Black Lions / The Walya Antelopes | Ranked 118
Saving and scoring penalties every day
What we learned from day seven of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
Heroes of Afcon 2013: from DR Congo’s “bum shuffling” goalie to Ouwo Moussa Maâzou, the Nigerien striking sensation
…the disadvantage of his team being a man down against Ethiopia somehow to his team’s advantage
Future Radioheads
The Children’s Radio Foundation, which trains young radio reporters, invited pop musician Colin Greenwood to South Africa. Would the trip break with celebrity conventions?
Shameful Self-promotion: Sean wrote an online essay for the SSRC on ‘New media in Africa and the Global Public Sphere’
…official trip to an African Union summit in Ethiopia, resulted in the presidential spokesperson releasing a
5 Films to Watch Out For, N°20
Born in a small township near Gondar in northwest Ethiopia, Yityish Aynaw recently became the latest
New York African Film Festival 2013
…decontextualized. And as she wrote much later: “Those of us over the age of thirty probably