
Yes, some Africans admire Margaret Thatcher
We were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a gallery of 10 of them.
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Sean Henry Jacobs is the founder of Africa is a Country and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

We were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a gallery of 10 of them.

Roger Ebert revolutionized television film criticism in the United States with his engaging discussions alongside Gene Siskel. He loved African film.

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.

Margaret Thatcher put to rest the essentialist fallacy that women are inherently more moral than men.

A bonus music break focused on jazz, including a conference on South African jazz, as well as the varied sounds of Jon Batiste, Guillermo Klein, Madeline Peyroux, Secret Society, and Moonchild,

The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa's rainbow shibboleths.

In what has little to do with the DRC, Affleck, dubbed Life President of Congo, gets hailed as "Hollywood’s New Role Model" and the "new paradigm of masculinity" in the entertainment world.

Bob Marley, like many other Rastas, also shared a desire to visit the African continent or, if possible, to live there.

Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.

This website thinks it can combine ideas about Africa with shopping. Sean Jacobs interviewed one of the founders of African Lookbook, Aaron Kohn.

We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.

We are taking a collective break from blogging until Thursday, January 10th to give us a

In any case, here's 10 albums I liked this year; in no particular order. It includes Alabama Shakes, Isaac Mutant, Kendrick Lamar and Bruce Springsteen.

Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.

The fate of the University of the Western Cape, set up for coloureds, radicalized by black consciousness and from where the ANC prepared to govern.

Bonus music break: Abdullah Ibrahim, John Tchicai, Gato Barbieri, Barre Phillips and Makaya Ntshoko performing live on German public television in 1968.

Cedric Nunn's photography reflects the complex emotions of his black South African subjects, their humanity, dignity, in very personal terms.

Can a rap music video do better than some journalism in showing the real, unvarnished existence of ordinary Nigerians?