[The wealthy Congolese club and current African Champions League cup holders] TP Mazembe Englebert have produced the biggest shock in the history of the FIFA Club World Cup, beating the Brazilian team Porto Alegre 2-0 to become the first team from outside Europe and South America to qualify for the final [of the tournament that […]
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see “how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends.” He took about ten million friendships—that is, pairs of Facebook friends—and, using the locations provided by those friends, calculated the number of friendships between cities. By combining the […]
Not everyone is so taken with what Wikileaks has wrought. I’d be curious to hear what some of you think of this take of Wikileaks and Assange, by a reader, an American leftist: … I’m refusing to get caught up in the Wikileaks tempest. I have no problem with what Wikileaks did (I should care […]
On the usefulness of WikiLeaks and the self-destructive personality of its founder, Julian Assange.
In Cote d'Ivoire, expect a coalition government where the loser remains president and the winner as prime minister.
By Peter Alegi In a few hours WikiLeaks will release thousands of secret FIFA documents detailing World Cup match fixing and widespread corruption within football’s governing body. Never before have such confidential documents been released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into FIFA’s activities on the […]
The Black American writer, James Baldwin, draws parallels between oppression in South Africa, Algeria and the United States.
Young Kenyans are not cynical, detached brand obsessed hedonists and want to take a personal stake in the affairs of the country.
Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.
This photograph of Soccer City, the venue for the opening and closing games of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg by the young Johannesburg photographer Sabelo Mlangeni, is included in the ambitious exhibit: “Afropolis. City, Media, Art: Urbanization Africa, now showing through March 11 at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany. The exhibit focuses on Cairo, Lagos, […]
Uganda's President, in power since 1986, has tried to appeal to the country's youth by rapping. Is it any good?
James Scott: "the majority of article publishing [in academia] is ... put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles."
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”
Apparently President Lyndon Johnson, known for his support of Rhodesia (and paradoxically for signing the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in the United States), had a big part in the origins of modern humanitarianism in the United States. Writing in The New Yorker reporter Philip Gourevitch recounts an order from Johnson to his Undersecretary of State as […]
The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town is one of South Africa's great moral leaders.
The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.
Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.
How transparent are African governments about how and where they spend tax money?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB3MSIRmBD0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Sean Jacobs This is worth remembering. In 2004 the Liberian footballer George Weah was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the Espys. (For those who don’t care: that’s sports channel ESPN’s versions of the Oscars.) This is the man who scored the greatest goal of all time and the only African player to […]
From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.