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Signs the journalism on Africa you’ve just encountered is trash
If more than one of these apply to your media source, you're probably not getting your information from the most reliable place.
Remembering Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima had the unique ability to strike first at your heart, not unlike the experience of hearing Billie Holiday for the first time.
Christina Aguilera feeds “war-torn” Rwanda
Africa: helping white people who are a bit down-in-the-dumps, feel better about themselves since 1884.
The Supposed Vacuity of the “Global Novel”
The fact that the global novel has emerged from the world of the global literary economy does not render it "lite."
Mozambican Occupations
The work of photographer Felipe Branquinho, which portrays workers and working class people in their urban surroundings in Mozambique.
The Nobel Peace Prize: Totally irrelevant?
It is worth going through some of the dodgiest choices made by the Nobel committee in the time they've awarded the Peace Prize first in 1901.
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips and the “True Story” of Somali Piracy
The complexity surrounding the social and economic drivers of piracy off the Horn of Africa was lost in the media-friendly version of the story.
African Writers and the Nobel Prize for Literature
Only five African or African-born writers have been awarded the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Coetzee and Lessing.