• Sean Henry Jacobs

Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.

• Sonja Sugira

The new colonialism: the Africa being carved up into game reserves and concession areas to provide exclusive eco experiences for the rich.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sonja Sugira

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times columnist, whose reporting is very influential in elite public opinion about Africa, prefer white "bridge characters."

• Sonja Sugira

Alex Perry's work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that's allowed when you write about Africa.

• Sonja Sugira

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.

• Sonja Sugira

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

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.

• Sonja Sugira

• Sean Henry Jacobs