Fantastically Corrupt
Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?
corruption
Nigeria outsources policing of corruption
Two weeks ago, on October 6th, Nigeria’s former oil minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, was arrested in London
President Obiang and the Samba School
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
P-Square are Investigative Journalists
For a while now we’ve been toying with the idea of starting a Tumblr called “Shit
The Minister of Earth and Sky
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
The world’s media and Angola’s elections
The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.
Goldman Sachs’s Angolan interests
When the Financial Times commits an entire article to topics Angolan, it fills my Google news alert for a week.
Dakar Hustle
http://vimeo.com/20927993 Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti–remember him? Keyti was one of the stars
Own Goal
By Peter Alegi In a few hours WikiLeaks will release thousands of secret FIFA documents detailing