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Chinua Achebe The Writer Lives On
To my ear Achebe’s voice is always measured even at its most defiant.
The passing of Chinua Achebe
Comparisons between Chinua Achebe and Nigeria's other great writer, Wole Soyinka, will increase, now Achebe has passed.
Welcome to Mali
France's intervention never offered a real solution to any of Mali's problems, but created a set of problems to the ones this country would otherwise have faced.
Ben Affleck makes the Congo cool
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.
The prerogative of a lame duck President
Why Goodluck Jonathan's presidential pardons are a bad idea.
The Happy Dutch Sprinter
Why does black characters in Dutch TV commercial plays some exaggerated version of someone from the colonies? Can "normal" black people not sell a product?
The Blood of the Impure
The French national anthem is a pretty nasty song. It dreams, in one of its more memorable verses, that the “blood of the impure” will “irrigate our fields.”
Another Side of the Story
An interview with the managing editor of "Daily News Egypt," two-years after the Egyptian uprising.
How many Twitter activists make one vote?
The problem with so many Twitter crowd members is they live in their comfort zone and are not about to lift a finger to get out of there.