Death Metal in Angola
A review of a film on a metal genre produced by young Angolans in Huambo, the center of the protracted civil war that ended in 2002.
Media
The Story about Africa’s “First Woman Billionaire”
Where does Isabel dos Santos's wealth come from? Her country's resources are basically treated as her family's property.
What’s Best for American Policy in Africa
Would former US Assistant Secretary for Africa, Susan Rice, have been a good choice for Barack Obama's Secretary of State?
The ‘Africa Rising’ Bandwagon
Al Jazeera falls for the fiction that business entrepreneurship and corporate capitalism will be Africa’s saving grace.
The ‘Promised Land’ in Mozambique
Gregor Zielke’s photos capture a coal mining company’s broken promises to a Mozambican community, but also the communities’ resilience.
Eggs and omelettes
The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.
My Subjective List of The Best Albums of 2012
In any case, here's 10 albums I liked this year; in no particular order. It includes Alabama Shakes, Isaac Mutant, Kendrick Lamar and Bruce Springsteen.
Why does the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.
Social Media in Africa’s Revolutions
How anonymous parties define, construct, and support uprisings in Africa via social media.
The Trouble with Aid with “The Trouble with Aid”
How the humanitarian movement grew in close relation to the democratization of moving image technologies.
Woman of the Year
Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon's repressive regime on the government's actions: "Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”
All the immigrants’ crimes in Italy
The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society
Howls in a hurricane
For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.
What was Strauss-Kahn wearing?
Euro-American media just can't do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.