Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
African Perspectives on Iran
The Cartography of Bullshit
The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.
No, Africans don’t remember Margaret Thatcher fondly
Thatcher’s energetic opposition to sanctions and support for right wing forces prolonged the state of violence across the breadth of Southern Africa.
The media caricature of Hugo Chávez
A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.
Tintingate
Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children's literature.
The Geopolitics of Hunger
Former UN envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World hunger: "We Let Them Starve."
On African Asylum Seekers in Israel
Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.
The civilizing mission of the white man
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.
The confused lens of memory and trauma
The Rwandan film, "Grey Matter," is part of prestigious traveling film exhibition, the Global Film Initiative.
The Ministry of Culture
In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.
What Ugandans think of Obama’s “Special Forces”
For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.
Enjoy Poverty
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.