Not all US media are willful idiots
This is another Weekend Special post: compiling news and links we didn't have time to focus on in the last week.
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You Never Walk Alone
It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.
The Darkness in Senegal
The mixing of popular protest and music in protests over electricity cuts in Senegal.
John Malkovich’s South African accent
So as usual, a bunch of links—new as well as ones—that have piled up in my bookmarks folder. It's Weekend Special.
Jesse Jackson’s Africa policy
Surely Jesse Jackson did some basic research on Laurent Gbagbo's rightwing identity politics before accepting an invitation from his supporters?
Nigerian Millionaires
That time Nigeria's government objected to a commercial for SONY's PS3 video game console.
Two Men, Two Countries
Who are the real victims of crime and violence in South Africa?
They Just Stood There Naked
What was Johannesburg newspaper, The Star, hoping to achieve with this dehumanizing image?
Love in Africa
This book explores love, that stuff most Western journalists rarely write about when they write about Africa.
It has come to this
The victim politics peddled on blogs by a section of expatriate white South Africans--often with positive results for them.
Manufacturing controversy
The mass support for Caster Semenya among South Africans is paradoxical: of a country deeply divided, yet at certain moments strangely united around a common cause.
Joe Slovo was one of my heroes
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid. He was also the most visible white face of that movement.