Another Side of the Story
An interview with the managing editor of "Daily News Egypt," two-years after the Egyptian uprising.
An interview with the managing editor of "Daily News Egypt," two-years after the Egyptian uprising.
The problem with so many Twitter crowd members is they live in their comfort zone and are not about to lift a finger to get out of there.
Angola is a country that has been ruled by the same party, the MPLA, since independence in 1975. The party has effectively transformed itself from a socialist bloc into a purely capitalistic organization with a diverse array of business interests and impressive market-savvy, all thanks to the barrels upon barrels of oil the country has […]
A French Communist MP announced he would press the French National Assembly to create an inquiry commission to investigate the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara.
Elections provide opportunities for national self-examination and renewal, maybe not in Kenya.
We may not all love Chelsea Football Club (John Terry, their klepto-petro-billionaire owner, John Terry, the list goes on) but we are loving the team’s Brazilian midfielder Ramires right now. And not just for that equalizing goal he scored on Saturday against Manchester United in the English FA Cup. When Ramires played for Cruzeiro in Brasil, […]
The question for Western journalists is this – when it comes to Africa, why do you not tell the whole story of the humanity at work even in times of extreme violence?
On Sunday, Jestina Mukoko, Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was ‘released’ from prison. Her defense attorney and fabulous feminist human and women’s rights attorney Beatrice Mtetwa, among others, greeted her. Yes, it’s springtime in Zimbabwe, as in Zimbabwe Spring … except that it’s not. Friday was International Women’s Day, #IWD2013. To honor that, […]
A BBC interview with Julius Malema, a South African political leader and acolyte of Chavez, is exhibition 1,000,003 mainstream media framing of the late Venezuelan president.
The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
The Pistorius' murder trial is a good time to review how New York Times reported on another South African killing: Marikana.
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
Vice.com's reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.
Reporting ahead of Kenya’s election by the international media can basically be placed in two general categories: optimism and, of course, no surprise, pessimism.
Since Valentine’s Day everyone has been talking about the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, although rarely in those terms. We know that her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius, shot her four times and killed her while she was behind a locked door in their bathroom in a gated estate. We know that he has a history of domestic […]
When it comes to South Africa, US media publishes articles that may have been written already before an event even happened.
The enduring controversies around Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy.
The Ugandan photographer: "It gets even more complicated being a photojournalist in Africa feeding foreign channels with African events."
Did Goodluck Jonathan allegedly take US $1m from an anti-poverty fund to allegedly bring Beyonce and Jay-Z to Nigeria in 2006?