#Kony2012 and British media
A review of UK media coverage of the viral politics of the misguided #Kony2012 social media campaign.
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Malawians are fed up with Madonna
…and clean toilets? Is it daycare for girl students’ children? Questions that cannot be asked or
Fabrice Muamba and English football
It's a shame that a player had to suffer from a heart attack to provoke feelings of belonging about him as a refugee and immigrant. It says something about Britain.
Germany’s Namibian Legacy
Jim Naughtom's images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.
The Hissène Habré “political and legal soap opera”
…themes in the films and screams of Chad’s leading artist, Mahamat Saleh Haroun. * David Styan,
Guggenheim’s map–Where is the rest of Africa?
…Tate’s galleries in London, but also to “to broaden Tate’s international reach in Africa.” It is
We are not all Senegalese
Senegal's scandal: Thousands of local boys or trafficked from neighboring countries (known as talibés) are forced into begging by religious teachers.
Shell brought me here
A BBC reporter visits the old fields of southeast Nigeria, the site of massive exploitation by Shell Oil--in a helicopter provided by Shell.
Yinka Shonibare’s National Treasure
The ever-well-informed African Art in London announced this week that Yinka Shonibare’s contribution to the fourth
David Cameron’s Libya Doctrine
Britain's secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
Tintin’s Day in a Belgian Court
Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.
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.
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern
Over the last six months, the Tate Modern in London has held Topology: Spaces of Transformation,
The Decade of Film
I participated in Sight & Sound's once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. I included at least two African films: "Borom Sarrett" and "Mapantsula." Hopefully, they make the cut.
Egypt after Edward Said
…after the first round of Egyptian presidential elections), Ahdaf Soueif – Egyptian émigré novelist and founder
The Aura of Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba is the master of the unruly and the absurd: when he is in form, none of what the other team does matters.
Akin Omotoso’s Country
A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.
The Safe Location
Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°13
…Lesotho-based Dunamis’s ‘Destiny’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThC0L0cr0E We never wrote about how it took the release of a Shangaan
Africa Express: A Different Breed of Alternative Energy
…after the installation.” You can follow the progress of Africa Express on Facebook and Twitter. *