Africa Is a Country

US STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS OUT MY BLOG

US STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS OUT MY BLOG

By
Sean Jacobs

Last week The Brookings Institute held a conversation with the Nigerian Foreign Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe on “The Nigeria-U.S. Partnership for Regional Security in Africa,” in Washington D.C. Not really earth shattering stuff, except when 52 minutes into the discussion a senior US State Department official for Africa decided to call out my blog. Serious.

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* As for the image, above, it has nothing to do with it; I just wanted to put up a picture of Chantal Biya, the First Lady of Cameroon, and her husband, Life President Paul Biya, with Barack and Michelle Obama. [[H/T: Daniel Morris]

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.