Howls in a hurricane
For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.
For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.
On December 3, in the Indian capital of Delhi, five men gang-raped a 24-year-old Rwandan woman. They robbed and assaulted her when she was returning to her home in a residential area close to the University of Delhi. The local police tried to keep the assault under wraps. They refused to file a “first information […]
Yesterday we tweeted my friend Herman Wasserman’s guide to the media on how to cover Nelson Mandela’s hospitalization (it’s good advice if you’re a journalist). This morning I asked Nathan Geffen, a South African media activist (and author) whether we could republish here his post on the “when Mandela goes” meme. Geffen is one of the key people […]
What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?
My beef with rhinos is more of a beef with white South Africa as a whole, who are all for saving rhinos but largely silent about inequality, poverty and institutional racism.
Here's on lesson from Ghana's 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana
Euro-American media just can't do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.
Mali's interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.
What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?
Most media reports of “political murders” in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa don't situate them in their larger historical context.
Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.
Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.
The United States' star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.
It is becoming apparent that Malawian presidents have one image for the world and a separate one, mostly negative, for the people who actually voted them into power.
Discussions of the "shifting disease burden" fail to recognize that in the West diabetes or heart disease are not “diseases of affluence,” but diseases of poverty.
The Globe and Mail's opinion page promotes outmoded and discredited ideas about modernization about African development.
An interview with the leaders of a viral online campaign originating in Norway aimed at exposing European ignorance about the foolhardiness of humanitarianism in Africa.
The chance that the lives of South Africa's poor will change for the better without struggle, is slim.
Please, no more articles claiming to discuss African issues, but which are just rock stars turning up at US universities spouting nonsense.
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