Has Nandos lost the plot?
The South African fast food chicken chain Nando’s (which has of late also become very popular
Politics
Made in China
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH-a_rDH9c8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] The football will be great, we’ll talk tactics and football history all month long, make
Vamos a ir a Sudafrica
Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.
The only appropriate response now is silence
Lara Pawson's blog post about the way elites and media in the West talk, write and act about the African continent and its people, though hardly to them, is worth reposting here.
Animal Kingdom
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfsM4yBZps&w=500&h=307&rel=0] It will get ridiculous over the next month. For now the price goes to goes
The Wedding
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsG49zXF8xk&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Driving in Soweto, film maker Dumisani Phakathi reflects on next month’s World Cup: [The World
Coco Cola and the "African Boy"
I’m a bit late with this, but I’ll post it anyway. (Look out for lots of
Nick Kristof promotes the missionary position
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times columnist who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time. No word about the larger structures causing their misery in the first place.
Mandela’s Children
Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.
South Africa. It's in South America
Apparently on a Chicago TV station. Let’s hope this a spoof. Otherwise it explains this kind
The Model and The Activist
The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.
Two Annoying White Men
When Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper thought it was OK to get two white, Irish men to edit a special issue of the paper on Africa.
Cavemen among us; but not in Africa
Researchers find Europeans and Asians share 1% to 4% of their nuclear DNA with Neandertals. But Africans do not. What to do with this information?
Have another Coke and smile Roger Milla
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3Q54rPjQw&w=480&h=295] Having stripped the Somalian singer K’Naan’s protest song, “Waving Flag” of any meaning, Coco Cola
Political Economy
The political scientist Adolph Reed Jnr on what political economy mean to cultural studies.
The Final Countdown
For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.
Truth and Reconciliation
In Argentina members of that country’s military dictatorship that conducted a “dirty war”) against its people
The World of Tyler Perry
Whatever The New Yorker’s rationale for commissioning a piece on Tyler Perry, the “critic-proof” producer and
The Full-Back
I am still on my pre-World Cup binge. Brazil remains odds on favorites to win Africa’s
Apartheid is a museum no one visits
How much do young South Africans, especially college students, know about their history? Not much, if these videos are any indication.