Shmuley Boteach seems to be everywhere these days. The right-wing rabbi’s new book Kosher Lust has just been released. Last week, he played host to a galafeaturing Chris Christie, giving the New Jersey governor a chance to make amends with Sheldon Adelson, the pro-Israel billionaire Christie offended when he used the words “occupied territories” in a recent speech.
A very short introduction to Peter Mutharika, Malawi's new President.
China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.
Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin. This is a big disservice to Nigeria. Today’s History Class is going to be about that fellow, the one who has roads named after him in Lagos and Abuja, but who, sadly, is slipping away from our national consciousness.
"Miners Shot Down," by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.
Lamu Old Town is an ancient, bustling city of palm trees and artisans and stories, where trades and traditions are passed down from generation to generation largely unchanged. Acting as a trading hub for centuries, the archipelago’s food, architecture, religions, dress, music, and language are indicative of African, Arab, Persian, Indian, Asian and European influences, […]
White South Africans come together to vote as a bloc for only two political parties: the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans artists and intellectuals moved to Ghana as part of attempts to redefine their relationship to citizenship in the U.S. as well as their African identities.
In Ethiopia the façade of legalism has become an indispensable gloss on political repression.
I was sitting in the tube recently and browsing through one of those free morning papers that no one really reads when I stumbled on a new Heathrow Airport ad with the legend: “Only Heathrow takes Britain further.” The ad depicted a Eurocentric world map lacking national borders or state names. Not only is Britain placed […]
South Africa's media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.
Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.
Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.
For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.
Just in time for the weekend, episode 2 of Africa is a Country Radio is here! (It went live first on Groovalizacion last week.) This month’s episode opens with a dedication to Suriname, and ends with an audio accompaniment to Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s blog post: “News from Nigeria.” There’s lot’s of fun stuff in between as well, check […]
Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.