Journalism
Searching for a ‘blood-diamond bazaar’
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
Traffic Report
Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.
Africa: The Final Frontier
The new colonialism: the Africa being carved up into game reserves and concession areas to provide exclusive eco experiences for the rich.
Bananas and Baboons
This time, R.W. Johnson, the British-South African writer, had gone too far even for the London Review of Books ' editors. They took down a post of his.
Skin Deep Politics
The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.
Stuff White People Do
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.
Nick Kristof prefers White Saviors
The New York Times columnist, whose reporting is very influential in elite public opinion about Africa, prefer white "bridge characters."
Time and Time again
Alex Perry's work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that's allowed when you write about Africa.
The Ugly American
US writers about soccer beginning to display the same kinds of sports-commenter crypto racism that has been pretty standard issue in Europe for quite a while.
Madonna: International Human Rights Defender
The breathless reporting of Madonna's various doings in Africa, including when she is given credit for things she didn't even do, should stop.
Blue Balls
When white South Africans do ordinary things, like travel to a black neighborhood, they're showered with platitudes. This is not reserved for their black country fellows.
The Missionary Position
The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time.
