Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLtdHQeIZA&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My 5-year old has known for quite a while–long before mainstream media caught onto it–that
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Europe’s Apartheid
In a recent interview on French television to promote his new book “Sortir de la Grande
Uncle Wole’s Party
Last month Johannesburg filmmaker Akin Omotoso, who directed a documentary about Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can’t say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu’s first novel, “The Beautiful Things
The anti-politics machine
James Scott: "the majority of article publishing [in academia] is ... put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles."
Music Break
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDg6pBMlsI4&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It’s no secret that I am a big fan of the Noisettes and their singer and bassist, Shingai
'The Janitor'
When the Johannesburg Art Gallery bought one of Mr. [Gerard] Sekoto’s paintings in 1940, they had
‘The Blood Diamond Myth’
It would be interesting to hear people’s opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
In My Country
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKLxfP3xju0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Since we’re on the topic of Cote d’Ivoire, here’s Ivoirian veteran underground rapper Manusa’s “Dans
Gbagbo's Elections
It’s been 10 years since Cote d’Ivoire’s presidential elections; “… a whole lost generation since the
The Comedy Hour
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVawARS2oCQ&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Later today (starting around noon) Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert–both mainstream liberal comedians, media critics
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”