Winter Reading List
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
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White Dictators
Here's a list of white dictators, including real world ones, who were either African or operated on the continent.
Blackface Fish
Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?
Benefit Packages
Israel to African nations: take our asylum seekers and we will give you arms.
George Bush and Nicholas Kristof’s Hunger Games
We hope the “women of Africa,” who are being discovered yet again, appreciate all the good work being done for them.
What is going in Egypt?
Is this Egypt’s second revolution, a military coup, or an agglomeration of both (“Democratic Coup”, anyone)? And then there's the media noise.
The only black jockey in the race
S'manga Khumalo is the first black jockey to win South Africa's richest horse race.
This man is Afrikaans
On a visit to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, academic Herman Wasserman gets reminded of home and how people perceive him.
Nelson Mandela is around like never before
Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.
Linda Ikeji should drop the homophobia
On Linda Ikeji's blog it's all good fun until the gay-baiting begins.
There will be no hiding place
The UK government is now openly tweeting its contempt for people of color.
Three Books on Nelson Mandela
The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.