The fear-riddled DNA
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
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Helping Themba
The Dutch ‘Stop Aids Now!’ campaigns have a long tradition of appealing to potential donors in
Car Commercials and Primitive Peoples
It could have been just another dull TV ad featuring an Inca boy, Maori warriors, or
Beginning Workout
Talking about running: some ad people can make any city look good.
Pizza Aid
What happens when humanitarian agencies ditch the tried-and-trusted fundraising method of splashing disaster porn across screens and news pages?
Die Antwoord’s At It Again
How long will be tolerate South African rappers, Die Antwoord's racist and homophobic antics?
Take me to your leader: Babatunde Fashola
The Governor of Lagos has larger ambitions than just governing Nigeria's and probably Africa's most vibrant megacity.
Nike Chiefs
What if major sports brands like Nike let local football stars - playing who are not big in Europe, but big in national club leagues on the continent - front a campaign?
'Slavery, The Game'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMzeQicAh8&w=600&=369] While watching out for Fifa 12, I got distracted by this Youtube “commercial” for another
50 Cent Wants to Help Africa
Remember when rapper 50 Cent announced that he would try to provide 1 billion meals over
Flash Mob
No it’s not a protest. It’s PR for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth in
'Brand Africa'
I like the young producers and reporters at Radio Netherlands Worldwide‘s Africa desk. From the informed
Must Be Something in the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GvkDgP30A Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities’ tap water and
Back Then
Commercials to promote a retro music show on a local Cape Town, South Africa-radio station provides a necessary corrective to the amnesia and myth making in the country's public (and popular) life.
Branding The New Black
Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.
Walmart in Africa
Illustration: Brent Godfrey “Newsweek” journalist Jeremy Kahn stops pretending he’s a journalist and just channels the
Scared dictators, pt.2
The International Society for Human Rights‘s new campaign. Via Osocio.
Out of Africa Redux
Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.
White People Eat Fried Chicken
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_WxJVxHcw&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Allison Swank Just as Nelson Mandela went underground as the Black Pimpernel in 1961 to
A Big Issue
What to do with a new ad for the Cape Town, South Africa, magazine meant to support and highlight the lives of its homeless population.