The Soap Bar
The Girifna Movement, a social movement in northern Sudan, encourages voting and advocates for peaceful change amidst the country’s depressing election scenario.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
West Africa just can’t get a break
My latest roundup of happenings that couldn’t get the full standalone post treatment.
The Original Queen B
An ode to Busi Mhlongo, the South African singer, composer and danger.
Traces of Bhekumuzi Luthuli
White South African and Americans musicians have borrowed heavily and built a careers off the Maskandi music pioneered by working class musicians like Luthuli.
The Celebrity Scramble for Africa
The 1884 and 1885 meetings in Berlin of Euro-American powers to divide up the riches and territories of Africa are being reprised. By and for celebrities.
Nicholas Kristof wants it both ways
The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.
Regarding Julius Malema
Julius Malema is equally a creation of the ANC and the South Africa’s media. He is, however, the ANC’s responsibility. How long it will take before ANC leaders kick him out?
Is this Nollywood?
A lot of people, not just Nigerians or its media, are pleased with white South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s portrayal of Nollywood.
The Messiah
There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.
Vote Sudan
The result may be a foregone conclusion, but it hasn’t stop young Sudanese, via the Girifna Movement, working to get the vote out using music.
Eugene Terreblanche is Dead
The murder of the racist, far-right politician provides further fuel for the victim discourse among white South Africans.
Somalia’s colonizers dressed well
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.
Prodigal Son
A white man dressed like Mobuto with two black “assistants” in tow, throw around fake money in Basel. What’s this about?
The National Sport of South Africa
Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.
Illegal or Dead
Sorious Samura joined African migrants trying to make it to Europe for menial jobs and loneliness.
Madlib’s Radio Freedom
Madlib’s “Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa” is about African liberation in the 1970s, especially south of the Limpopo.
All About Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof’s journalism, which is largely focused on Africans, is exhausting to watch. And it is always about himself.
Liz Johnson-Artur’s Archive
The Ghanaian-Russian photographer documents the African diaspora in Europe, mostly in the United Kingdom.
The Trumpet King
Zeal Onyia was a master Nigerian trumpet player from the 1950s treated as an equal by Louis Armstrong.
Jeffrey Gettleman, Our Man in Kenya
Is the New York Times’ correspondent in East Africa, a journalist or just someone relaying stereotypes?