Why is so much coverage of the Mali crisis so bad?
We mean the kind of bad that comes from being caught in a Beckettian loop of either saying nothing at all or having nothing to say.
We mean the kind of bad that comes from being caught in a Beckettian loop of either saying nothing at all or having nothing to say.
The only way to sustain interest in the lives of African and African American NFL players is to either talk about their personal tragedy or show how moved they are by the plight of other black people.
Sierra Leone is a tough place for women and girls, maybe among the worst. But that doesn't mean they’re waiting for Nicholas Kristof to save them.
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
When ‘culture’ looks like poverty and poverty ‘looks like culture' any questions about the structural and geopolitical causes of poverty are easily muted.
Today’s New York Times Magazine carries a fawning profile of John Prendergast, the force behind the
Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.
The New York Times columnist, whose reporting is very influential in elite public opinion about Africa, prefer white "bridge characters."
The achievements of the Somali model and designer, Iman, in a very racist fashion industry, particularly Paris and New York, should be widely celebrated.
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.
And although we loathe the "resilience of Africans" trope, I can't stop celebrating the Kinshasa Synphony Orchestra.
Nicholas Kristof's journalism, which is largely focused on Africans, is exhausting to watch. And it is always about himself.