The Real Maids of Beirut
The vast majority of domestic workers in the Middle East are migrant workers. A fair number are from Africa, particularly Kenya and Ethiopia.
Journalism
Making a fool out of himself
Through his internet show, "What's Up Africa!," Ikenna Azuike delivers incisive commentary on media and cultural politics with irreverence and humor.
Song and Dance
By Dan Moshenberg Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National
Weekend Special, August 5
The famine in the Horn of Africa has revived the debate about “starvation photography.” The blog
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Medea is a Malian woman
By Dan Moshenberg Did you hear about Medea? You know, the woman who killed her two
Malawi Spring
By Dan Moshenberg Did you hear about Malawi Spring? It started Wednesday, July 20. Thousands of
Drones in Somalia
The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.
The Rwandan Glass Ceiling
When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.
Africa is a Country
Must be our blog title. Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill’s Congress Blog about
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.
'Imagine life without photos'
A worthwhile project by two Canadian brothers who grew up in 1970s Liberia–it still feels like
The inequality of news
Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend, takes shots at “the news,” maybe also at his own
'I wanna be a Nigerian so freaking bad'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbvPa5npmo&w=560&h=349] UPDATE: This video, “I wanna be a Nigerian so freaking bad,” by a group of
Ali Bongo loves America
Gabon's unsavory Life President came to visit the US. Probably to discuss oil deals. He became collatoral damage in the US right's media war against Barack Obama. So less time to focus on Bongo. So a win for him then.
The Gautrain
EDITED: Useful summary of the South African government’s ambitious plans for the first high-speed commuter train
The Cost of Oil to Nigeria
“Nigeria is the world’s 8th largest producer of crude oil, yet remains one of its poorest
