Barack Obama’s “Power Africa”
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
Obama's energy program for Africa, risks appearing tentative and small-bore, like much of the administration’s Africa policy.
The story of the Mount Zion community, largely made up of West African men collecting scrap metal all over Barcelona.
This is the second in a 3 part series of posts on sexual violence against women, focuses on the campaign strategies of groups led by men who fight gender-based violence.
Most men in South Africa share the same ideas about manhood that fuel assaults against women. The media should keep the spotlight on that.
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
Nelson Mandela would recognize himself in young protesters for whom freedom has been postponed and view South Africa's government as an obstacle.
The long-held and widespread attitudes some South African journalists share about the struggle for liberation.
In a rapidly changing city like Luanda, it is important to be able to catalogue all of its eating establishment, or at least those that our wallets and stomachs allow.
Townships and informal settlements are not dump grounds but living breathing communities where the residents are tired of being treated like shit.
Even after the Mau Mau case the British will never stop kidding themselves about the crimes of empire.
Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.
Germany's a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country's present.
The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.
A Dutch filmmaker travels to Zambia to find out what "liberated, spoiled, but also insecure" Western women can learn from their African counterparts.
My knowledge of European club football doesn’t stretch much further beyond what gets posted here on Football is a Country and the odd link I come across on our Twitter feed (blame my wary interest on the historical underperformance of Belgian teams* and a time-consuming preference for all things music) so I was surprised to […]
Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?
A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.
When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.
South Africa's news media's much vaunted editorial independence.