Madonna chooses Malawi
Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that's where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?
Journalism
Tendai Biti at Columbia University
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe's opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.
In The Name of Malawi
Indeed.
We are all Andries Tatane
We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.
'Coming to America'
[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity
Freedom's in the Toilet
Ahead of local government elections in South Africa–scheduled for May–the Democratic Alliance, which governs Cape Town
Milestones: South African newspaper, Mail & Guardian, opens YouTube account
The South African newspaper Mail&Guardian has a YouTube channel which makes browsing through their occasional video
Election Blues
A reader: $1 billion for an election and you’d think ballots would be delivered, on time,
Nairobi in April
Writer Mike Pflanz and photographer Brendan Bannon’s new site Daily Dispatches: Nairobi “… is an innovative
No Comment
There’s a labor dispute between the NFL, which runs American football, and players (the fight is
Snake Oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOwDQcPwbs Selling desperate people false hope, especially AIDS patients, are common on the African continent–well documented
The Land Question
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGkJsR7-HY] The Guardian’s John Vidal reports from Ethiopia’s remote Gambella region where in the last 10
A road accident doesn't make a revolution
Recent demonstrations in Sudan’s capital Khartoum over road conditions and traffic signals have led some observers
'Brand Africa'
I like the young producers and reporters at Radio Netherlands Worldwide‘s Africa desk. From the informed
This is not about Jacob Zuma's sex life
On Monday tens of thousands of young South Africans marched in Cape Town, South Africa, to
This is about Congo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0dfuAWDIQ ABC News on Ben Affleck’s “time with the people of Congo” and his “odd couple”
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
Cameroon is Cameroon
A mix of factors - language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression - prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.
'Political Art'
Negar Azimi, in Frieze Magazine, on what the ascendency of ‘political art’ means for art’s actual