Viva Tanzania
For all the gross, lurid news stories or the films you see about fatal violence against,
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Searching for a ‘blood-diamond bazaar’
Any ban on blood diamonds would ultimately harm low-paid Congolese mineworkers and would be too difficult to enforce anyway.
‘Where was Mandela between 1964 and 1990?’
The American (celebrity) writer Kitty Kelley' on writing an "unauthorized biography" of Nelson Mandela: For the
Wade's Country
The present situation in Senegal is at a decisive turning point in its history. We have,
Bloody Agent*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAibpGHesg4 We know Jacob Zuma can dance. But can Julius Malema, the future President of South
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while--long before mainstream media caught onto it--that
Europe’s Apartheid
In a recent interview on French television to promote his new book “Sortir de la Grande
Uncle Wole’s Party
Last month Johannesburg filmmaker Akin Omotoso, who directed a documentary about Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can't say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu's first novel, "The Beautiful Things
The anti-politics machine
James Scott: “the majority of article publishing [in academia] is … put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles.”
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDg6pBMlsI4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It's no secret that I am a big fan of the Noisettes and their singer and bassist, Shingai
'The Janitor'
When the Johannesburg Art Gallery bought one of Mr. [Gerard] Sekoto's paintings in 1940, they had
‘The Blood Diamond Myth’
It would be interesting to hear people's opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
In My Country
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKLxfP3xju0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Since we're on the topic of Cote d'Ivoire, here's Ivoirian veteran underground rapper Manusa's "Dans
Gbagbo's Elections
It's been 10 years since Cote d'Ivoire's presidential elections; "... a whole lost generation since the
The Comedy Hour
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVawARS2oCQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Later today (starting around noon) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert--both mainstream liberal comedians, media critics
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”
Photo: Eileen Perrier
From Eileen Perrier's "Red, Gold and Green" Series (1996).
Jimmy Mubenga is Dead
Dan Moshenberg, Guest Blogger Jimmy Mubenga came to England seeking asylum, seeking life. According to his
Children of Kinshasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtE2sTIS9z4 If you have seen the 1987 movie La Vie est Belle (Life is Rosy), you