Do you know Omar al Bashir?
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
It would be interesting to hear people’s opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
Two years later, Barack Obama's election as US President still influence cultural production on the continent.
The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.
Alex Perry's work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that's allowed when you write about Africa.
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times columnist who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time. No word about the larger structures causing their misery in the first place.
The Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck (remember his excellent “Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City“) recently
Nicholas Kristof's journalism, which is largely focused on Africans, is exhausting to watch. And it is always about himself.
What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.