Christine Lagarde cares for Niger
Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her “austerity” agenda.
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Elliot Ross
Elliot Ross was a member of the editorial board of Africa is a Country.
Livetweet Recap: NYT (and Vogue Italia) “Rebrands Africa” (again)
From a series of tweets I did on the New York Times story "Rebranding Africa" which
African Men
The video, “African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes,” made by an American NGO, is part of the “Brand Africa” discourse that’s all the rage now.
In Praise of Jeffrey Gettleman’s Pulitzer
Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for “his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa.”
The best sports films have no play in them
Tunde Kelani’s “Maami,” a tale about a former professional footballer, is bold and stylish film-making, and it deserves a wide audience.
The 19th New York African Film Festival: ‘Playing Warriors’
It’s not hard to see why Rumbi Katedza’s first feature has been described as a Zimbabwean ‘Sex and the City’. Four high-flying twenty-something women spend a good chunk of the movie hanging out in trendy Harare bars talking sex, dating, and marriage. There’s kissing, laughing, gossiping and some great outfits. Luckily, unlike the HBO series, there’s no annoying voiceover offering throwaway insights every five scenes.
Okonjo-Wahala
Nigeria’s very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She’s the “African Renaissance” candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?
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.
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.
Football: The 11 Commandments of Rigobert Song
When the good Lord handed down the Decalogue to Moses atop Mount Sinai, he limited himself
The Lagos preacher and the football final
Both Africa’s infamous pastors as well as our staff predicted Zambia would win the African Cup of Nations Final. We’re not sure who had the closer relationship to the gods.
Germany has a version of GQ magazine
A woman in Germany removes her clothes and poses for a magazine photographer with her famous
The Copper Bullets
Zambia is on course to be Southern African nation since Bafana Bafana in 1996 to win the African Cup of Nations.
Super Bowl Predictions
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.
Football Underdogs and Politricks
The fortunes of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea at AFCON 2012. The latter especially, a squad cobbled together by naturalizing players from Brazil and Spain.
Vincent Kompany is from the DRC
What countries do footballers playing in Europe’s top five leagues come from? That’s not such a straightforward question and answer.
Pizza Aid
What happens when humanitarian agencies ditch the tried-and-trusted fundraising method of splashing disaster porn across screens and news pages?
“I don’t go for third terms”
By Elliot Ross Kinnah Phiri is a hero of Malawian football. As a player, he
‘The Art of El Anatsui’
Film Review by Elliot Ross* http://vimeo.com/16874224 Making a film about an artist whose work is as
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.