Interventionists across the political class in Europe and North America have comprehensively militarized the humanitarian enterprise

One way of looking at Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s words at the end of the farcical

I have always felt uncomfortable with the idea of a ‘National Braai Day’ in South Africa,

Until recently, Tony Blair had never visited Malawi. Last summer there was a lot of international

We recently posted a bit on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 40 richest Africans. In a

This documentary film about football in Africa is actually not that terrible once you get past the

Shameless self-promotion: “Board Games” is a short documentary video I did for my friend Kent Lingeveldt

In an astoundingly ambitious new series of 12 feature-length documentaries titled The Price of Kings (available

It has recently been announced that Roland Joffe, (Londoner and) director of films The Mission and

Desmond Tutu, public intellectual, cleric, all round enemy-of-injustice, and professional granddad, departs the public stage today

Like many other mainstream publications, National Geographic Magazine’s June 2010 issue (out May 25) will host

Desmond Tutu can’t do much wrong. He’s up there with Nelson Mandela. (The latter complimented Tutu

I think we are at a bad place in South Africa, and especially when you contrast

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJqqzmljo_8&w=480&h=295] Democracy Now! in New York City reports last week on the historical case in a

Remember when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison on February 11, 1990. I know for some

Ted Kennedy passed away last week. Around here the emphasis has been on his domestic legacy