Not Julius Malema's Youth League
[slideshow] I've blogged before (at my old blog address) about the Johannesburg fashion movement, The Smarteez.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Madonna: International Human Rights Defender
The breathless reporting of Madonna’s various doings in Africa, including when she is given credit for things she didn’t even do, should stop.
Iman is fierce
The achievements of the Somali model and designer, Iman, in a very racist fashion industry, particularly Paris and New York, should be widely celebrated.
"We’re Cool Like That"
Last week I got an email from a reader, Sojourner Ahebee , 14 years old, originally
Has Nandos lost the plot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaUcmdisfo The South African fast food chicken chain Nando's (which has of late also become very
Africa on Film: Tarzan!
Few other authors in the 19th and 20th centuries made greater contributions to Hollywood’s racist images
Music Fridays
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aHkRx1IKlOg&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Ice Cube was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week. Of course to
The Stories We Tell About Africa
Chris Abani’s musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters “Africa” every day, and then attempt to write about it.
Tell ’em to skate
The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.
Made in China
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-a_rDH9c8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The football will be great, we'll talk tactics and football history all month long, make
Vamos a ir a Sudafrica
Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
Blue Balls
Last Saturday, a rugby playoff match in South Africa was switched from the white suburbs of
The only appropriate response now is silence
Lara Pawson’s blog post about the way elites and media in the West talk, write and act about the African continent and its people, though hardly to them, is worth reposting here.
No politics please
[slideshow] South African corporates has always been on the side of right. Literally. Take this recent
Animal Kingdom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfsM4yBZps&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes
It must be Africa
For the next month we’ll be bombarded with commercials riffing of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. There’ll be lots of “African” themes.
From Now On*
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_HP8mgT8A&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The video for Dutch hip hop group Zwart Licht's single "Vanaf Nu." Via @Mustafa Maluka:
After the Bulldozers
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11738776 w=500&h=281] Beautifully shot short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving
Africa on Film: A New Series
We also aim to educate. Over the next few months, Allison Swank will commence a new
Rihanna: Back in Blackface?
In the music video for her latest single, “Rockstar 101,” singer Rihanna appears in what looks like blackface.