We will be back tomorrow
Starting this morning, we begin our annual month-long break from this site (we’ll still be active on social media–Facebook and on Twitter and Twitter again). We’ll be back after Labor Day (the Americans’ poor excuse for May Day) at the start of September. In the meantime, this is a good time to revisit our greatest hits from the last year. Here’s 10 to start you off:
Kenya’s first mockumentary takes on the world.
Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey
What Paul Simon really thought of Nelson Mandela
Against the Gospel of “Africa Rising”
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips and the “True Story” of Somali Piracy
The #BullshitFiles: Christina Aguilera feeds war-torn Rwanda
The Dangers of a Single Book Cover.
The #Bullshit Files: Mindy Budgor, ‘the first female Maasai warrior’
What’s wrong with the Germans.
When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie met Sweden
The Cape Town company that designs and markets “slave ship” ironing boards and aprons
10 excuses most Dutch people make for racism
What they don’t tell you in the brochure about Stellenbosch
Belgium is an insular country. It lives like history happens outside of it.
Enough of the liberal pieties on Sochi and gay rights
In any case, feel free to read the whole archive.