Health care for all
The health news – with major implications for Africans living on the continent – that made the headlines in 2011.
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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
10 photographers to watch in 2012
As part of a series of year-end posts--we're taking a break from Friday, December 23, till January 5, 2012, we're hoping to post 10 "Lists of 10" this week. (We're trying to be cool by calling it "10x10"). So two lists per day. Orlando Reade, who blogs for us from London, starts us of with his list of 10 photographers to watch in 2012. He's picked five African artists and five Europeans who have been working in Africa.
The love for our mothers
The series, Paris Is a Continent, is on number 6. Songs about our moms and break-up songs sung by men that women will like, among others.
R.I.P. Cesária Évora
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yffEiWHIoZI&w=600&h=349] This morning, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora passed away in Mandelo, São Vicente, the island
Dances with Samburu
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
Ploughing through the blog's archives to come up with a fair selection of ten videos for
Helen Zille’s ‘AIDS Gestapo’
The leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance makes offensive remarks about AIDS, then smears her critics, AIDS activists and journalists, as Nazis.
Nigeria's Prophet
By now you've probably watched the (British) Channel 4 TV documentary film about Nigeria's millionaire preachers--the
Dosunmu's 'Restless City,' the best African film of 2011?
I finally got to see director Andrew Dosunmu's debut feature film, "Restless City," this summer (at the
Swazi Bull
Politics, repression, religion, exile, tradition and mysticism in Swaziland, Southern Africa’s last absolute monarchy.
The business of selling beer
SABMiller’s new Impala Beer is marketed to poor people who don’t buy other commercially distributed beers because they are too expensive.
The ‘safest option’ in Congo
For all the huffing and puffing in the West about the DRC's cooked elections -- President
Shameless Self Promotion
It's that time of year again. The students in my required Media and Culture course at
Music Break. Ghostpoet
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Mike Skinner playing keys in this "improvised" video for Ghostpoet makes perfect sense. The online
Wonder Woman can beat breast cancer
The Mozambican Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer (ALCC) enlists female superheroes to raise awareness around
Celebrating African women filmmakers
Two events in London this year focused on female filmmakers working in African cinema. This is high exposure for a demographic of the African film industry that is generally low on the radar.
New Films
This list is partly self-indulgent. It is also a way--hopefully weekly--for me to keep an online
The fear-riddled DNA
A new ad for how DNA works feeds into a fear-riddled white South African state of mind about black crime and blacks-as-a-class as criminals.
Shameless Self Promotion
Occasionally we have to promote our day jobs. Here are some excerpts from an op-ed that occasional AIAC blogger Herman Wasserman and I wrote last week for a South African publication on the latest manufactured scandal by the opposition Democratic Party (not to say that the ANC can't avoid scandals)
"The Somali Neurosis"
14-minute clip from a recent TV profile by Norwegian television of a visit by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah to Norway. I never imagined book TV could look this good and informative.