Nando’s Grilled Chicken Politics
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Uptown Sahel
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.
First as tragedy, then as farce
What is it with the conviction, held primarily in the West, that you can save yourself and the world (well, usually Africans) by shopping?
The geo-branding war
Geo-branding is a serious thing. It is particularly serious when people from other geographic areas decide
African Men
The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.
Coke and cynicism
I won’t bother to unpack this commercial, but this is exhibit A for the case against
French Tropicalism
When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.
The Invisible Christians
A big part of the story that is being missed about Invisible Children is that they're firmly rooted in Evangelical Christianity.
Paris a Continent … the Nike edition
I like the tone and aesthetic of this commercial. It makes Paris look like parts of
A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
The three little pigs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xIgq13mX3A No, they’re not Africans. It’s just a great TV ad campaign for The Guardian newspaper.
Do people believe ex-prisoners can change their ways?
That was the question asked to people in Cape Town, South Africa, by the Prison Broadcasting
Surfer dude
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
If commercials were a competition
A sample of some of the TV commercials made specifically for the 2012 African Cup of Nations football tournament.
Guinness for the people
Beer company Guinness’s new commercial “The Ticket,” made for its huge Nigerian market and first unveiled
‘Support unborn African babies’
A Belgian organization (backed by a smart advertising agency) “is calling on unborn babies in Belgium,
‘Fictional’ Cape Town
How Cape Town is used by advertising firms as a cheaper, stand-in location for Euro-American locations.
The Hall of Shame
We couldn't resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
The business of selling beer
SABMiller's new Impala Beer is marketed to poor people who don’t buy other commercially distributed beers because they are too expensive.
Wonder Woman can beat breast cancer
The Mozambican Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer (ALCC) enlists female superheroes to raise awareness around