Hope Floats
The Globe and Mail's opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
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Just like in a science fiction movie
Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.
When The Sartorialist went to Johannesburg
In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.
Jonas Savimbi is a video game star
No surprise that the dead Angolan rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, is a video game character; in life he was a media mastermind.
The Next James Bond
The Bond franchise has a white casting problem, but at least it has made peace with Britain and its institutions' marginal position within world affairs.
Development always comes with a political agenda
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
TIME Magazine and the “Africa is Rising” Meme
TIME Magazine has copied what The Economist did in 2011, and decided “Africa is Rising.” Again.
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°26
We should start numbering these bonus music breaks. First up, above, from Kenya: the Large Gang,
Killing an African Warlord
“Key & Peele” (the comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) are considered the next generation of
New, Old South African Theater
The success of 'Mies Julie' tells us more about the way that audiences in the Global North like to think about South Africa than it does about actual South Africa.
10 African films to watch out for, N°12
Here’s another list of 10 films in the making or already finished. Two long fiction features
The View from the Cape
The chance that the lives of South Africa's poor will change for the better without struggle, is slim.