Song and Dance
By Dan Moshenberg Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National
Television
You no longer need to be white to feel like a tourist in South Africa
What do you do as a South African tourist industry when the promised surge in visitors
The news about Romelu Lukaku
You’ve heard the news about Romelu Lukaku? The 18-year-old Belgian-Congolese striker signed a contract with his
Weekend Special, August 5
The famine in the Horn of Africa has revived the debate about “starvation photography.” The blog
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Sierra Leone’s Own TV
An interview with the founders of a media center providing technical, artistic and vocational support to filmmakers in Freetown.
This is Freedom
The new reality show "Clifton Shores," promises Americans "fun" views of life in Cape Town. Without trying it probably will expose the ugly reality of racism and inequality in the city.
'Old and New Colonists in Zambia'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRw7DWPchE
This is Africa: Sudanese TV in Dubai Edition
Sudan's vast diaspora in the Gulf reflected in media available via satellite in Dubai.
The Indians are coming
This is an ad to promote the wares of Willow TV—the California-based portal for live Internet
James Baldwin on racial oppression
The Black American writer, James Baldwin, draws parallels between oppression in South Africa, Algeria and the United States.
What's "a native African"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxrLiqsXSQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Even if you don’t care about boxing. On sports network ESPN’s their “analysts” Chris Broussard
The Sierra Leone Show
Vickie Remoe has expanded Sierra Leone's presence on the web beyond the views of expatriates in the country.
Krusty the Clown's Activism
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OoeAeZM5Q&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The opening episode of the new series of “The Simpsons” features a convoluted plotline where
You can make this stuff up
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8gRF_m6CSI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The US Navy commissions a group called Blue Water to genetically engineer “a half-shark, half-octopus”
Name Calling*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRgKxB7jug&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Unfunny Rick Reilly, a commentator on the American sportscaster, ESPN, insults new British Open champion,
Vintage Bigotry, South African Edition
John Oliver, a “correspondent” for the comedy news show, “The Daily with Jon Stewart,” has been
Bono did something right
You know we give Bono a lot of grief on this site, but in this commercial
'Symbols of Liberia's Struggle'*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOvI9bvruQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Rapper Nas narrates a short insert on ESPN’s “E:60” on the Liberian national amputee team
South Africa. It's in South America
Apparently on a Chicago TV station. Let’s hope this a spoof. Otherwise it explains this kind