Black Economic Empowerment in your dreams
I saw this ad on TV a few times during my recent trip down to South
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Time and Time again
Alex Perry’s work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that’s allowed when you write about Africa.
Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko’s mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
We are the world
Despite its high cheesiness quotient and half of the teams featured in the video already out
Thank You Ghana Black Stars!
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/13010025 w=500&h=307] Ghana's Black Stars was on a run to make history--to become the first African
Music Fridays: Tinashe
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32pplDyPlo&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My friend, Wendy Willems, former Londoner now teaching media studies at Wits University, pointed me
Esto contigo Brasil
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bVpbu8bXQ&w=500&h=307&rel=] The largest African country in the world just crashed out of the quarterfinals of the
Africa on Film: Out of Africa
Our film critic, Allison Swank, rewatches the 1985 film. Her verdict: “Out of Africa” is a media nostalgia piece for a time when whites ruled in Africa.
Black Star Jam
Tomorrow Ghana will try to the impossible: become the first African nation to go to the
Obrigado, Pelé
A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil’s greatest rival.
El Negrito
Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: “… a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body.”
Just add some Africa
http://vimeo.com/12671709 An ad for multinational Orange to grab customers in a Middle Eastern country for some
Hold On To Your Hat
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL3tRBZv7QA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] South African football fans (well, boosted by corporates) have brought the world the plastic vuvuzelas.
Who will play George Weah?
The blog Liberia and Friends reports the American actor/director Dermot Mulroney will develop and probably direct a
The Daily Show takes on the World Cup
[vodpod id=Video.3900482&w=450&h=370&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] The Daily Show with Jon Stewart sends "correspondent" John Oliver to Johannesburg to learn
South African music is more than Graceland
What often gets lost within the narratives of oppression and exile is that the 1960s and 1970s also proved to be an exceptionally vibrant and creative period.
(S)hell in the Niger Delta
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11804108 w=500&h=281] Powerful Amnesty International spot for its campaign around conditions in Nigeria's Niger Delta where
The World Cup and Pan-Africanism
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observes that international soccer allows for “a kind of nationalism that expands as your country loses.”
South America's World Cup
All five of the South American representatives in the 2010 World Cup have made it to