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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIeE_sfFrw&w=500&h=307&rel=0] 2010 was supposed to be the year the European Union would come up with a
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5s-FUbcE9o&w=500&h=307&rel=0] This is not really a music video I know, but it's worth your time. Trust
Anybody can be a maid
All maids in South Africa are called Sheila. It’s the job description: to have a name that is directed at you but has nothing to do with you.
The Loser Remains President
In Cote d’Ivoire, expect a coalition government where the loser remains president and the winner as prime minister.
Bwana Saves Africa
Today's New York Times Magazine carries a fawning profile of John Prendergast, the force behind the
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgAhDy41Vwk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] In this short video Portuguese singer Carmen Souza speaks about her third album "Protegid" (which
Gal draws Belgium and Congo
Belgian cartoonist GAL turned 70 this year. The relations between Belgium and Congo haven't been absent
Scared dictators, pt.2
The International Society for Human Rights's new campaign. Via Osocio.
Shemelis Desta
A post about Ethiopia that is not about Meles Zenawi's regime. Next week (Tuesday 7 till
Moçambique Popular
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.
Own Goal
By Peter Alegi In a few hours WikiLeaks will release thousands of secret FIFA documents detailing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALDgQERlLw In 1987, two years before the Congolese grand maître Franco died (although never substantiated, it
Move Something
By Caitlin Chandler This World AIDS Day, rather than pay attention to celebrities who are "dying
T.I.A. (Give a Goat)
This is the second post in what might become a regular series of posts of snapshots–
“Keep Africa Alive,” Continued
The campaign is accompanied by print ads featuring celebrities in coffins to represent their digital deaths. Can this stop, please?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WgjyU-xOG8 K.ommando Toxik's output has been prolific this year. See for example their Persona Non Grata
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What is either a gollywog or coon ornament in a Christmas display of an East 17th
'Africa Uploaded'
These photographs (above and below) by South African Rushay Booysen (from Port Elizabeth in the Eastern
James Baldwin on racial oppression
The Black American writer, James Baldwin, draws parallels between oppression in South Africa, Algeria and the United States.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riYn1SozWo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The young Lagos, Nigeria-band Che and the Continuous Highlife Evolution's striking "Civil War." As the