• Sonja Sugira

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, for all the people he's helped, lacks critical self-reflection.

• Achille Mbembe
• Laurent Dubois

This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.

• Sonja Sugira

Alex Perry's work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that's allowed when you write about Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On the field, Africa’s World Cup has disappointed: Nigeria faltered, South Africa and Algeria couldn’t finish, Côte d’Ivoire were unlucky, and Cameroon underwhelmed.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Researchers claim to have found evidence that vuvuzelas can lead to permanent hearing damage. But it won't stop the "tradition." Neither will FIFA

• Caitlin L Chandler

This is so cynical: let people in poor countries send money to nonprofits in rich countries.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Herman Wasserman

The chicken fast-food chain’s latest television commercial, riffing on the World Cup, satirizes stereotypical Africa yet risks reproducing the very tropes it mocks instead.

• Sonja Sugira

Mexican broadcasters are no different from their Euro-American counterparts, in peddling outdated stereotypes about Africa.

• Lara Pawson

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Commercials tied to the 2010 World Cup sell brands through a tired global template of African-ness: poverty as texture, hardship as atmosphere, resilience as spectacle.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof who has made Africa his beat, lectures poor Congolese about their leisure time.

• Allison Swank

Alexandra Fuller highlights the deeply ingrained sociological, economic, and political problems that still persist in South Africa as a result of apartheid.

• Sonja Sugira

The one about the black model we all love to hate and the white activist we all just love.

• Sonja Sugira

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.

• Sonja Sugira

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?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Coca-Cola’s ad trivializes Cameroon’s 1990 World Cup breakthrough, ignoring its transformative global impact.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. — whom I first met in 1995 and often joke is “always right” — on what political economy means for cultural studies.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.