Didier Drogba, Truth Commissioner
Cote d'Ivoire's newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country's diaspora.
Politics
'Slavery, The Game'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMzeQicAh8&w=600&=369] While watching out for Fifa 12, I got distracted by this Youtube “commercial” for another
Nicholas Kristof Saves Another Woman
In The New York Times columnit's world, Kenya is just another Third World site of pathos, despair, degradation, and fallen women waiting to be saved.
The Real Maids of Beirut
The vast majority of domestic workers in the Middle East are migrant workers. A fair number are from Africa, particularly Kenya and Ethiopia.
Weekend Special, August 12
Liberian Hipco music culture — “Liberia’s version of hip-hop; the ‘co’ is short for colloquial or
Song and Dance
By Dan Moshenberg Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National
There’s more to Staten Island than ‘Mob Wives’ and Wu Tang Clan
Photographer Glenna Gordon, no stranger to AIAC, is working on a new project in Staten Island,
Music Break / Stromae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vr1nyXu4Ts Stromae seems determined to turn every song on his 2010 album Cheese into a hit.
Malawi Spring
By Dan Moshenberg Did you hear about Malawi Spring? It started Wednesday, July 20. Thousands of
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
What about the maid?
African women work as domestics over the world. How have they responded to or organized to improve their conditions?
The Mobile Phone Chimera
Two recent articles highlight the fact that the digital divide is very much still with us, and in fact new kinds of divides may be opening up.
The Black Maroons of Colombia
The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.
The ‘African chambermaid’ and the media
Nafissatou Diall's rape accusation against Strauss-Kahn plays out in front of wider struggles by African women to secure justice and well-being.
The Rwandan Glass Ceiling
When does being a Rwandan woman matter? When that woman is a killer, a rapist, a torturer, a `monster.’ Not when she is an organizer and a healer.
It is the time for summer lists
A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.
The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
This Generation of African Women Leaders
Dan Moshenberg has written guest posts for AIAC before and we’ve HT’d him a few times.
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.