• Siddhartha Mitter

Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.

• Siddhartha Mitter

The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.

• Dan Moshenberg

Thatcher’s energetic opposition to sanctions and support for right wing forces prolonged the state of violence across the breadth of Southern Africa.

• Dennis Laumann

A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.

• Johan Palme

Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children's literature.

• Thomas Blaser

Former UN envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World hunger: "We Let Them Starve."

• Anonymous

Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.

• Orlando Reade

The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.

• Basia Cummings

The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.

• Orlando Reade

In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Joe Penney

How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.