The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
Discussions of the “shifting disease burden” fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Hope Floats
The Globe and Mail’s opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans’ concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
When The Sartorialist went to Johannesburg
In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some “Fashion Week,” but on the street.
Jonas Savimbi is a video game star
No surprise that the dead Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, is a video game character; in life he was a media mastermind.
The Next James Bond
The Bond franchise has a white casting problem, but at least it has made peace with Britain and its institutions’ marginal position within world affairs.
Development always comes with a political agenda
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
TIME Magazine and the “Africa is Rising” Meme
TIME Magazine has copied what The Economist did in 2011, and decided "Africa is Rising." Again.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwAY64UX8o We should start numbering these bonus music breaks. First up, above, from Kenya: the Large
Killing an African Warlord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdcL6FrQ6Y "Key & Peele" (the comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) are considered the next generation
New, Old South African Theater
The success of ‘Mies Julie’ tells us more about the way that audiences in the Global North like to think about South Africa than it does about actual South Africa.
10 African films to watch out for, N°12
Here's another list of 10 films in the making or already finished. Two long fiction features
The View from the Cape
The chance that the lives of South Africa’s poor will change for the better without struggle, is slim.
The Trouble with the Nigeria Prize for Literature
Should we care that Africa’s richest book prize is paid for by a company with unethical business practices?
General Focus of Freetown
How is it like to be talented, have dreams and be young in Sierra Leone and what kinds of support exist to get you to the next level. Kelvin Doe’s story is a good case study.
Yannick Nyanga’s Tears
How a black French rugby player’s crying during the playing of the country’s national anthem was appropriated for all sorts of rightwing and reactionary politics.
French-Algerian sculptor Rachid Khimoune exhibits in New York City
Rachid Khimoune grew up in a small mining town in Northern France where his Algerian parents
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWwbE50GR6A This summer's Fuse ODG #ANTENNADANCE competition ("one person controlling the other using azonto movements") courtesy
It’s Africans’ turn to help Norwegians
A campaign by a Norwegian student group wants fundraising causes not be based on exploiting stereotypes. Also that aid be based on real needs, not “good” intentions.
Does it matter where an African film ends and begins
The eleventh edition of African films we’d like to get on people’s radars. We can’t guarantee that these films will be available everywhere.