A few days ago, Al Jazeera English channel screened (and then put online) a 30 minute

A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed

It’s clear that truth and reconciliation commissions are half-successful attempts at inventing half-baked feelings of national

Magic Systeme and Tiken Jah Fakoly tells their fellow Ivorians “Ca va aller.”

James North: Orientalism takes a different form in sub-Saharan Africa.  There, Orientalists do not emphasize the

That’s how Alexis Okeowo (on Twitter) sums up the end of the four-month stand-off against democracy

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pGUDHQFzahQ#!&w=500&h=307&rel=0] In Cote d’Ivoire, President Laurent Gbagbo’s gamble to hold elections did not work out as

Jesse Jackson, whose brand of black politics has been displaced momentarily with the emergence of Barack