What next for Burkina Faso?
The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.
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Siddhartha Mitter
Siddhartha Mitter is an American journalist writing about art, and urban politics and histories in the United States and Africa.
Nelson Mandela’s Humanity was a Political Education
The author, remembering Mandela, writes how South Africa galvanized progressive energies in the US in the 1980s.
Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama’s energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
The Cartography of Bullshit
The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.
Soukous for Kabila
Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.
Michael Jackson in Tamale
A review of a new memoir by Ghana’s new President, John Dramani Mahama.
Billy Bang
Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.
Gaddafi’s voluptuous Ukranian nurse
On the usefulness of WikiLeaks and the self-destructive personality of its founder, Julian Assange.
Ivorian independence
Côte d’Ivoire is turning 50 — it became independent on August 7, 1960 — and my Ivorian friend doesn’t feel eager to celebrate.