Mali’s coup — First Thoughts
A few things are worth saying about the mutiny and the coup that rocked Bamako over the last few days.
Media
The Price of Leadership
A new series of documentaries explore the politics of leadership via an imaginative, malleable, deeply personal treatment of history.
Cape Town African Swag
Youngsta built a reputation on doing “straight up Cape Town hip hop,” but his recent output suggests he is now appealing to mainstream audiences.
Online politics in Angola
In Angola, the ‘pseudo-event’ is all the rage: small in meaning but enlarged by Facebook and cell phones.
Replete with Color
Zachary Rosen, a former Peace Corps official, describes his favorite photographs to us.
Oprah and Kristof: What don’t they have in common?
Oprah, like Kristof, turns a personal desire to help sufferers of abuse into a more than acceptable African development program.
Jeffrey Gettleman’s Continent
The New York Times East Africa correspondent can be summarized in three self evident points.
Kony 2012 is a Parody
A number of comedy videos lampooning Kony 2012 are making the rounds on social media. Some are funny, some are asinine.
The Invisible Christians
A big part of the story that is being missed about Invisible Children is that they're firmly rooted in Evangelical Christianity.
Soulja Boy takes on Joseph Kony
It has come to this. Musicians, especially rappers, had to wade in on the American social media campaign to "Make Kony Famous."
A miserable fraud
The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.
Senegalese drums
CNN does a story on Abdoulaye Wade's praise singer, Coumba Gawlo.
What was Dikembe Mutombo thinking
Mutombo, a former NBA star, seems in way over his head in a diamond scam. But some of the allegations cited in media reports don't add up.