The Joyce Banda Malawians know
It is becoming apparent that Malawian presidents have one image for the world and a separate one, mostly negative, for the people who actually voted them into power.
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Cape Town needs a visit from Anthony Bourdain
Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.
Film as Allegory
The thirteenth regular list of new films with African themes; it includes a number of films made exclusively for online consumption.
Why does South African history continue to be written primarily by white scholars?
The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.
My favorite photographs: Candace Feit
Feit, an American photographer, makes portraits or takes pictures of things she finds interesting and that aren't really applicable to an assignment she's on.
The danger of Africans becoming more “like us”
Discussions of the "shifting disease burden" fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.
Hope Floats
The Globe and Mail's opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
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.