Bad reporting on Ebola is worse than ignoring It
It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.
It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.
I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.
Why is it so difficult to understand when we Africans say that it’s offensive?
That story about Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B singer, performing in an air bubble to thousands of screaming Congolese in Goma, because he doesn't want to get Ebola is false
In June of 2014, My Africa Is decided to dive into Dakar, Senegal, a rarely talked
Today the American network NBC announced publicly that friend (and contributor) of Africa is a Country, Ashoka Mukpo, is
The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.
“This is Simply a Personal Statement from Me to You” On August 18th I attended the
To repeat: The Economist magazine has had a "Slavery Problem" since 1843.
And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?
We often hear political and business leaders and Africanists talk about the need to “tell the African
Biased media reporting won’t advance popular and professional understandings on how psychiatric conditions interact social and economic sources of stress.
Soyinka turned 80 this year. We learn this in an interview a Nigerian newspaper did with his
The 'Baba Jukwa' Facebook page exposes state and ruling party corruption and correctly predicts leadership battles in Zimbabwe. Who is behind it?
When it comes to Israel and Palestine, for Americans, it doesn’t matter if the careful phrases contradict the most basic facts.
In February of 2013, I made a hurried decision to head to Lagos, in an attempt
We published “Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey” (to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil) on
The Mexican writer Alma Guillermoprieto declared this World Cup “the best ever.” Few can disagree. A
Ann Coulter, an American columnist who makes Richard Littlejohn and Donald Rumsfeld look like easy-going lefties,
The messiness, subjectivity and imprecision of football are being eroded from the game, argues the Nigerian novelist and football fan.