Robert Mugabe

Black Presidents
When I was wrong as well as a snob about rappers and politics and readers called me on it.


The Good Guys
This film "Mugabe and the White African," is too busy picking sides, to ignore and obscure land dispossession by Whites of Blacks, instead hoping to posit White farmers as outside of history.

Nicholas Kristof wants it both ways
The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.

Regarding Julius Malema
Julius Malema is equally a creation of the ANC and the South Africa's media. He is, however, the ANC's responsibility. How long it will take before ANC leaders kick him out?

Somalia’s colonizers dressed well
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.

Prodigal Son
A white man dressed like Mobuto with two black "assistants" in tow, throw around fake money in Basel. What's this about?

Blood on the chair
Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world's leaders to sit for portraits. A number of African leaders obliged.

No good African leaders
Mo Ibrahim can't find a suitable candidate for the good governance award he hands out to the best former African leader once a year.

Mauled by an old lion
How Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's Life President since 1980, bested CNN's Christiane Amampour.

Not all US media are willful idiots
This is another Weekend Special post: compiling news and links we didn't have time to focus on in the last week.