Celebrating the World Cup does not mean we can’t ask hard questions . No, not that the annoying vuvuzelas are banned, but that thousands of informal traders will lose income because of Fifa-imposed “exclusion zones” around stadiums which permit only approved businesses, that street children are forcibly removed from Durban’s city centre, and in Cape […]
And although we loathe the "resilience of Africans" trope, I can't stop celebrating the Kinshasa Synphony Orchestra.
Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.
Is the New York Times' correspondent in East Africa, a journalist or just someone relaying stereotypes?
A true competitive selection process may have turn up the best possible candidate as head of UNICEF and not power politics.
Poor whites don't even make up 5% of the poor. Contrast that to more than 60% of blacks. But that's not a story for foreign media.
At minimum, VICE's work demonstrates there are stories to tell about Africa that can reach an audience beyond public television.
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.
Africa's first Nobel literature laureate is accused of Islamophobia. It is not his first time.
No one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feel-good cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry.
The most lasting legacy of Guinea's just deposed recent military leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, was his media tactics.
The film "Shirley Adams" is the story of a coloured mother in Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town, struggling to care for her recently disabled son.
A random terror attack on a football team gets media to pay attention to the conflict in Cabinda. In the process, they also expose their ignorance.
You don't come to Africa Is a Country for positive news and analysis. This week's round-up won't disappoint you.
The famed South African musician Hugh Masekela has a history of speaking his mind on postapartheid politics.
The fantasy that local people - small businesspeople, informal traders, especially black people - will make money or get jobs during the 2010 World Cup.
A TV news anchor confuses Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton. Then blames the teleprompter. This is journalism.
Mo Ibrahim can't find a suitable candidate for the good governance award he hands out to the best former African leader once a year.
Botswana's been governed by the same party since independence in 1966. There's no crisis of democracy in Botswana.
What came across, LOL, as recognition of Africa Is a Country from a US State Department official was more a case of speaking too fast.