Not all the news that’s fit to print
How the U.S.'s paper of record, the New York Times, "debates" South Africa's "future."
Media
The Story of South Africa’s Very Violent Farms
Thanks to labor groups in Sweden, a major importer of South African wine, who have recently called attention to labour abuses on farms.
National Geographic explores Zimbabwe’s pre-election pulse
Two initial thoughts on Alexandra Fuller’s “Breaking the Silence: Oppression, Fear, and Courage in Zimbabwe” in
Sympathy for the ‘Devil’
A New York Times article that's respectful and mostly accurate, including the use of terminology, when covering African Traditional Religion.
The New Yorker Goes to Mali
I do know a bit about Mali, but I hardly recognize The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson’s version of it.
Julius Malema’s next move
In South Africa, many youth votes are up for grabs for the first time, from the generation facing 70% unemployment and with little loyalty to the ANC of their parents.
Blackface Fish
Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?
George Bush and Nicholas Kristof’s Hunger Games
We hope the “women of Africa,” who are being discovered yet again, appreciate all the good work being done for them.
What is going in Egypt?
Is this Egypt’s second revolution, a military coup, or an agglomeration of both (“Democratic Coup”, anyone)? And then there's the media noise.
Linda Ikeji should drop the homophobia
On Linda Ikeji's blog it's all good fun until the gay-baiting begins.
The Zebras of Northern Nigeria
The guy in the picture is Abubakar Suleiman, a 15 year-old Boston student whose hobbies apparently include
The ZAM Chronicle: an online investigative magazine on and from Africa
This month sees the launch of The ZAM Chronicle, a new monthly online investigative magazine with
Our colonial torturers
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
Papers in order
Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.
The Real Housewives of Harare
It’s election season in Zimbabwe, and so, as before, the State has engaged in ‘urban renewal’
Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country's present.
Enough is enough
Senegalese collective who brought Abdoulaye Wade down reinvents media activism.
How to Please Your Man “Zambia Style”
A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what "liberated, spoiled, but also insecure" Western women can learn from their African counterparts.
The Minister of Earth and Sky
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
Mining the Body
What can the photographs of American anthropologist Danny Hoffman tell us about Sierra Leone and Liberian mineworkers or about mining in West Africa?